Friday, December 15, 2006

Dublin City Biodiversity Action Plan 2007-2010

The Biodiversity Action Plan for Dublin will aim to identify positive actions, improve quality of life and benefit both people and wildlife throughout the city.

Stakeholders have been invited to comment on the production and content of the Biodiversity Action Plan for Dublin city under a public consultation running from 27th November 2006 to Monday 15th January 2007. Stakeholders will then be invited to comment on a draft plan in the New Year, with a view to launching the final document in April 2007.

The preparation of the Dublin City Biodiversity Action Plan is an objective of the Dublin City Development Plan 2006 – 2011. It is also an action under the Dublin City Heritage Plan 2002-2006 and is partially funded by the Heritage Council.

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The island of ireland

Once upon a time, and for 15000 years, ice a mile high blanketed Ireland. When the lingering Ice Age finally released and the Irish ice departed it left a landscape scoured. Across land bridges linking Ireland, Britain and mainland Europe plants and animals arrived to colonise the new lowlands, mountains and valleys. The world’s ice continued to melt, the sea levels to rise, and some 8000 years ago Ireland became the island we now know, accounting for just 0.01% of the world's total land area and the most westerly point of Europe.

Though at Alaskan latitudes, the country's climate is tempered, due partly to the neighbouring waters of the Gulf Stream and partly the prevailing southwesterlies that veering and backing make landfall on our sodden coast. These offerings from the Atlantic mean it is never too hot, never too cold. But without doubt it is wet. Rain lingers year round, never far away, though is most frequent in winter, the western counties and, inevitably, on the day of your parade.