Whittled Away (eBook)

Padraic Fogarty (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
The Collins Press (Verlag)
978-1-84889-618-5 (ISBN)

Infos

'Ireland's heritage is being steadily whittled away by human exploitation, pollution and other aspects of modern development. This could represent a serious loss to the nation.' Irish Government Report, June 1969 Nature in Ireland is disappearing at an alarming rate. Overfishing, industrial-scale farming and pollution have decimated wildlife habitats and populations. In a single lifetime, vast shoals of herring, rivers bursting with salmon, and bogs alive with flocks of curlew and geese have all become folk memories. Coastal and rural communities are struggling to survive; the foundations of our tourism and agricultural sectors are being undermined. The lack of political engagement frequently sees the state in the European Court of Justice for environmental issues. Padraic Fogarty authoritatively charts how this grim failure to manage our natural resources has impoverished our country. But all is not lost: he also reveals possibilities for the future, describing how we can fill our seas with fish, farm in tune with nature, and create forests that benefit both people and wildlife. He makes a persuasive case for the return of long-lost species like wild boar, cranes and wolves, showing how the interests of the country and its nature can be reconciled. A provocative call to arms, Whittled Away presents an alternative path that could lead us all to a brighter future.

Autor

Padraic Fogarty, a professional ecologist from Castleknock in Dublin, holds degrees in Environmental Protection, Environment and Geography. Having served as chairman of the Irish Wildlife Trust, he now works as its campaigns officer and editor of the magazine Irish Wildlife. He is married with two children.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Badger • Ballycroy • bees • BIM • Birds • BirdWatch Ireland • blanket bog • bogs • Bord Iascaigh Mhara • Bord na Mona • bovine tuberculosis • Boyne • btb • Burren • Butterflies • carbon storage • Clara Bog • climate change • Coillte • Common Agricultural Policy • Common Fisheries Policy • conifer plantations • Connemara • conservation • corn bunting • Corncrake • Coveney • deforestation • Drainage • Environmental Protection Agency • EPA • Erosion • EU • European Commission • European Union • Exploitation • extinction • farming • food production • global warming • habitat loss • Habitats Directive • Invasive species • Irish Wildlife Trust • IWT • National Parks and Wildlife Service • Natural Heritage Areas • natural resources • NHAs • NPWS • Overfishing • overgrazing • pollution • Shannon • Simon • Subsidies • sustainability • Tourism • turf cutting • White-tailed Eagle • Wolf • Woodlands
• ISBN-10: 1-84889-618-2 / 1848896182
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84889-618-5 / 9781848896185