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Andrea 🦆🐠🦔🐝🌱🍄🌳

@andreaastronaut.bsky.social
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Passionate about all things nature and heritage. Self-propelled exploring. Birdwatching. Garden projects. PhD in astrophysics. ❤️ our 🌍

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Andrea 🦆🐠🦔🐝🌱🍄🌳 @andreaastronaut.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Anyone know what is growing out of this old alder tree and also what might be living in it? @irishrainforest.bsky.social @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social @ancienttreeforum.bsky.social
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Mark Robins @byhedge.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Exactly!!⬇️
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Andrea 🦆🐠🦔🐝🌱🍄🌳 @andreaastronaut.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Experiencing Rathlin Island’s wildlife westcorkpeople.ie/columnists/e... @rspb.bsky.social @rspbni.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social
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Experiencing Rathlin Island’s wildlife - West Cork People
This month, branch committee member Andrea Reichstein travels up to Rathlin Island, off the northern coast of County Antrim in Northern Ireland, to experience
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Andrea 🦆🐠🦔🐝🌱🍄🌳 @andreaastronaut.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wrote a piece in my local paper about the urgency of protecting the nature we have left here in Ireland .. 🦊🌿🌳🦦
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Walking in our farm's rainforest with the melting heat of these days, I am filled with such inexpressible anger at what is being done to our once stable climate. The richest 1% are actively, knowingly, and uncaringly sabotaging the future for all of us, and for the rest of the planet's life.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Turns out "cattle catch TB from other cattle **15 times** more often than from badgers." Yet the slaughter of innocent badger families goes on. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Cattle in England to get tuberculosis vaccine from 2030 as badger cull to end
Targeted vaccination and improved testing planned as part of drive to eradicate disease by 2038
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
One of the best pieces I've read in The Irish Times in years! Spot on @jenniecstephens.bsky.social!
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Time to challenge corporate power in Ireland
Greta Thunberg and Bohemian Football Club together stress need to put communities before companies
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Min Jack Chambers claim: “number of judicial reviews rapidly growing. 2024 saw 43% increase on 2023, & 2025 a further 30% increase in cases in Court” Factcheck “number of JR decreasing year on year..members of public to take 40% fewer in 2025 & overall JRs will be 15% lower this year” links below
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Today: - Read @georgemonbiot.bsky.social piece on corporate courts - Share it widely - Take action 👇 #ExitISDS www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4490
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Headline: “Delay inevitable' as south Dublin residents launch legal challenge against MetroLink” www.thejournal.ie/metrolink-ju... Backstory: In 2021/2 €12.5m was spent building an underground metro station at Charlemont “without ever notifying the public” www.irishtimes.com/news/environ...
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Work on Charlemont metro station begins before planning application for line lodged
Construction work costing €12.5m has already gone ahead
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising. 📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides #UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
Whooper Swan sick with bird flu in a field, photograph by Kane Brides
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Andrea 🦆🐠🦔🐝🌱🍄🌳 @andreaastronaut.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Had a fantastic day yesterday at the @btobirds.bsky.social birdwatchers conference. Great talks and some great chats with fellow birdwatchers and even got to see and hear the whooper swans on Lough Neagh.
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Save Murragh @savemurragh.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Yesterday was #WorldOtterDay; to celebrate these magnificent creatures here is a video taken at Murragh bridge last November 🦦
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Save Murragh @savemurragh.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A fascinating article about the complex history of Murragh from the Stone Age to the Celts. Archeological discoveries of a ring ditch and burnt mounts amoung others on the site of a proposed quarry make it an area of high archeological significance with a high potential of uncovering more features!
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Andrea 🦆🐠🦔🐝🌱🍄🌳 @andreaastronaut.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/st... @uplift-ireland.bsky.social
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Stop gambling arcade in Bandon
Gambling has ruined so many lives. Broke up marriages,  homes repossessed, jobs lost. Gambling can be a silent addiction and is not visible to lots of people. A gaming/ gambling arcade in a rural...
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Save Murragh @savemurragh.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A fantastic and thought-provoking article by our very own Ian Wild in this month’s West Cork People👏
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Save Murragh @savemurragh.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Beautiful Marsh Marigold and Lesser Celendine along Bandon river and the roadside 🥰
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Jamie Rohu @jamierohu.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
“Delivering Ireland’s climate targets is not simply about more renewables, more EVs and more infrastructure. It also requires doing less; less consumption, less demand and less expansion of some sectors.” Less is MORE when it comes to climate change mitigation! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...
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The Irish Times view on the climate crisis: political courage to act is missing
The general election took place inside a bubble, when a calamity with fundamental implications for society and the economy was relegated to a side issue by the three largest parties
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares" Imagine 3 billion more hectares for fully wild ecosystems. Diet is THE elephant in the room when it comes to reversing nature collapse. ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
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If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares
We could reduce the amount of land used for grazing and croplands used to grow animal feed.
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I think it’s cool that this historic storm is landing the day the new gov is formed. Really driving home where these climate change deniers are taking us
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Make your vote a green vote! Climate change is the defining issue of our generation. Our votes must reflect this. @foeireland.bsky.social
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Environmentalists rank parties on climate (and cycling) - here’s the results
Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin scored an E grade according to the analysis.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
If your home/livelihood are ever more frequently wrecked or threatened by severe flooding, and you've been wondering why, this graphic (plus climate breakdown) tells you all you need to know.
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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Lough Hyne, Europe's oldest marine reserve is being killed by pollution, poaching & neglect. The NPWS “look forward to the general reduction in nitrogen levels in the open ocean”...don't we all. www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
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Europe’s oldest marine reserve, located in County Cork, is in decline. What’s going on?
The Journal Investigates finds multiple pressures and lack of management are wreaking havoc on life in Lough Hyne Marine Reserve.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"[..] this is a species [us], beset by a lethal combination of conformity, distraction and a fear of offending powerful interests, actively collaborating in its own extinction." Given all the current facts, the only logical conclusion. NEVER give up fighting, but this is where we're at right now.
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