Ecosystem tipping points
Marine ecosystems are undergoing unprecedented change, with natural capital declining to the point that benefits accrued by humans are at risk. The Tipping Points project (2015-2019) aimed to collate and integrate datasets describing the Celtic Sea ecosystem, and to use this data to quantify how physical and biological ecosystem components have changed in recent decades […]
High nature value Ireland programme
This HNV farmland development project which has been running since 2010, provides seed funding for a number of initiatives including HNV network development, EIP operational groups, uplands and offshore islands work. GMIT’s ARD group is involved in the annual Burren Winterage School (https://www.burrenwinterage.com/) and the Farming For Nature network (https://www.farmingfornature.ie/), which also comes under this […]
