A scheme on the River Blackwater uses conservation and farming to improve habitats.
One of the great insights of ecology is that everything in an ecosystem is ultimately connected with everything else. A similar principle applies to human societies, succinctly expressed long ago in John Donne’s declaration that No man is an island. These ideas of interconnectivity, ecological and social, surfaced on a visit to IRD Duhallow, a remarkable community-based integrated rural development company that has operated in northwest Co Cork and in neighbouring parts of Co Kerry since 1989…
Irish Times, 08/02/14. Read the full article ‘Restoring the banks‘.
