N.Ireland
Nature-friendly farming budget in Northern Ireland ‘inadequate’
The current agricultural budget in Northern Ireland is “inadequate” to support farmers help tackle the nature and climate crisis, according...
RSPB NI
N.Ireland
50k grant offered for Belfast city centre farm project
Belfast City Council is offering a grant of up to £50,000 for the creation of a social farm or garden...
N.Ireland
Antrim brothers named Nature Friendly Farmers of the Year
At this year’s Farming Life awards, brothers James and David Bonnar from the Glenwherry area of the Antrim plateau, were...
N.Ireland
RSPB NI calls for climate policy reforms across NI
The nature conversation charity RSPB NI, has called on the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to implement ambitious...
Environment
Minister takes to the waves to visit wader breeding islands
Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Minister, Edwin Poots, took to the waves recently in Lower Lough Erne to see some...
Environment
Four calling Corncrakes confirmed on Rathlin Island
Four calling male corncrakes have been recorded on Rathlin Island for first time since the late ‘70s / early ‘80s,...
Environment
Quarter of island’s native birds now ‘red-listed’
Swifts, puffins and kestrels have been identified among the birds most at peril as a new cross-border report shows a...
Agri-Business
‘Covid-19 has not just caused a health crisis but also a hunger crisis’
A world-renown foods rights academic has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a “hunger crisis” even in some of...
Environment
Food, Farming and Land Convention to debate future of sustainable farming in NI
Conservation charity the RSPB NI is set to host a two-day conference to examine the future of sustainable farming and...
Environment
RSPB: New bill could ‘turn the tide’ on NI’s devastating nature decline
Bird conservation charity RSPB NI has said a public consultation over an Environment and Nature Restoration Bill in Northern Ireland...
Environment
Report links decline in linnets and reed buntings to reduction in arable land in NI
A reduction in the area of arable land farmed in Northern Ireland has been blamed for a decline in seed-eating...
Environment
RSPB NI launches 5-point ‘Green Recovery Plan’ for Covid-19
Investing in Northern Ireland’s natural environment has a “vitally important” role to play in the economic recovery from Covid-19, according...
Environment
RSPB NI calls for legally-binding conservation targets
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Northern Ireland (RSPB NI) is calling for legally-binding targets to restore nature...
Environment
Poll shows 75% of NI public want more support for green farming
A new poll carried out in Northern Ireland by the RSPB has found that three-quarters of people in the region...
Agri-Business
60 agri and environment groups call for PM to protect UK food standards
Over 60 farm and environmental groups have sent a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, calling for UK food standards...
Rural Life
Northern Ireland's most wildlife friendly farmer announced
Co. Down man Philip Bell has been selected as Northern Ireland’s most wildlife friendly farmer at the Farming Life and...
