Friday 27th Biodiversity Bus Hop on the biodiversity bus at Solas Bhríde Centre and Hermitages - Kildare at 6.30pm and visit internationally significant natural heritage sites of the Curragh and Pollardstown Fen. Dr. Mary O’Connor, ecologist and Nuala Madigan, IPCC will explore the flora and fauna of these interesting sites, in association with Kildare Town Tidy Towns. Places are limited for the event and therefore must be booked in advance. Call: Celine O’Neill on 045 980239 or email
[email protected] to book Saturday 28th Learn about Dormice - Naas Peter Behan and Marion Nolan members of Kildare Dormouse Group will chat Biodiversity with the group about this elusive species in Naas at 11.00am. Meeting at the Canal Harbour Naas. The word ‘biodiversity’ is coined from biological diversity, which, put simply is The Birds of another way of referring to the variety of Saturday 28th Ballynafagh - Prosperous life on the planet. Biodiversity is about the variety of plant and animal species Kildare BirdWatch with Tir na Mona Community Group will host a walk and talk on the birds of Ballynafagh and the interaction between them. It is Lake. Talk begins at 10.30am in The Old School Hall this interaction that is essential for life, Staplestown (beside Chapel), followed by a walk at giving us all the things we need - clean Ballynafagh Lake. air, water, agriculture, food and amenity. This year the Convention on Biological Wild About Clane Saturday 28th Diversity (CBD) has designated visits Nancy’s Lane! “Mainstreaming Biodiversity; Sustaining People and Clane Tidy Towns and experts from local wildlife their Livelihoods” as the theme for International Day for Biological groups will introduce some of the rich biodiversity - Diversity 2016.