We need to urgently protect and restore 30% of Earth’s Biodiversity by 2030 Help us safeguard and restore Carlow’s Drummin Bog – the last remaining raised bog in the South East of Ireland. To support the Drummin Bog Project in 2023, the Drummin Bog Project committee are inviting those who may not have the time…
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Drummin Bog Project NPWS Peatlands Community Engagement Award work benefits nearby secondary schools
This is the second of two posts about how the 2021 NPWS Community Engagement Scheme Award extended activities to fulfil the aims of the Drummin Bog Project Last year, despite the challenges of the pandemic, Drummin Bog Project committee members, past Chair Martin Lyttle (a former geotechnical engineer) and Creative Drummin Engagement Artist, Jules Michael,…
NPWS Peatlands Community Engagement Award work supports a major step toward restoring Drummin Bog
This is the first of two posts about how the 2021 NPWS Community Engagement Scheme Award extended activities to fulfil the aims of the Drummin Bog Project Last year, despite the challenges of the pandemic, Drummin Bog Project committee members, past Chair Martin Lyttle (a former geotechnical engineer) and Creative Drummin Engagement Artist, Jules Michael,…
Drummin Bog hosts Irish Community Wetlands Forum Meeting 26 Sept 2018
The South Carlow Drummin Bog Project is getting substantial support from the Irish Community Wetlands Forum (CWF) – a umbrella organisation that includes 20 member organisations. The Community Wetlands Forum offers a ‘network for community wetland groups to share knowledge, ideas, research and best practice.’ The Drummin Bog committee was therefore delighted to host the…
Celebrating Carlow’s Drummin Bog legacy landscape at VISUAL Carlow
On Saturday last, 2 Dec 2017 we were absolutely delighted as over 200 people came out to celebrate and support Drummin Bog at VISUAL, Carlow. The response to the artworks, the information desk and the event overall was absolutely wonderful, with people coming from Carlow town and county but also further afield from Dublin, Kildare, Laois and Wexford.
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