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Streamscapes Cuan Baoi – the Catchments of Bantry streamscapes | cuan baoi The Catchments of Bantry Bay www.streamscapes.ie SAFETY FIRST!!! The ‘StreamScapes’ programme involves a hands-on survey of your local landscape and Welcome to StreamScapes, a dynamic environmental waterways...safety must always be the underlying concern. If you education programme for schools, community groups, are undertaking aquatic survey, and individual citizens. Undertaking a StreamScapes What is a Catchment? remember that all bodies of water project will give you a deeper understanding of: are potentially dangerous places. • How your local (rural or urban) catchment When you think of it, we all live in valleys, no matter how steep or broad, Slippery stones and banks, broken environment functions, and all of our valleys have streams and rivers. From the hills above us to glass and other rubbish, polluted water courses which may host • How human activities impact upon natural habitats, the sea below, these watercourses make their way across our landscape disease, poisonous plants, barbed • How high quality freshwater environments reflect wire in riparian zones, fast moving and define the Catchment in which we live. Here a mountain stream wise landscape management, currents, misjudging the depth of runs swiftly and tumbles over waterfalls, there a wide river flows easily water, cold temperatures...all of • How to achieve best practice in pursuit of livelihood these are hazards to be minded! and recreation, and, past green fields, through our communities and down to the sea. If you and your group are • How your informed and active participation in planning a visit to a stream, river, environmental stewardship can improve the quality In that river, along its banks and into the surrounding landscapes, canal, or lake for purposes of of life now and for those who will follow may be found a wealth of biodiversity; fish, birds, insects, animals, assessment, ensure that you have a good ratio of experienced and This book provides information in support of theoretical trees, wild flowers, and people, but only if our waters run pure and clean. water-friendly adults to students, keep clear of danger, and insist on and practical Environmental Studies. It is intended for the For our Catchment also contains our farms and factories, towns and discipline and caution! use of Primary & Secondary School Students, but may be toilets. We need all of these, but we must also come to understand relevant to Farmers, landowners, or anyone interested in conserving their local waters, such as Angling Clubs or how, as we work and play, or cook, and clean, and garden at home, Tidy Towns Committees. An accompanying ‘Teacher’s we have a huge impact on water quality around us. StreamScapes Series Editor: Mark Boyden Guide’, ‘StreamScapes Múinteoir’, is available to advise Print: Ryson, Dublin further Catchment studies, and there are other resources ©Coomhola Salmon Trust Ltd. 2019 available on the website www.streamscapes.ie in This book introduces us to the Catchments of The Rivers of Bantry Bay; Published by Coomhola Salmon Trust Ltd. support of projects. Bantry, Co. Cork, Republic of Ireland the Water Cycle; and the wonderful variety of Biodiversity that clean t: (353/0) 275 0453 e: [email protected] rivers & streams support. It also encourages us to be active participants in w: www.streamscapes.ie Cover Photo: Cnoc Daod/Hungry Hill (StreamScapes Images) minimising the impacts that we can have upon these species & habitats. Original Artwork: Jessie May Winchester, Mary Moorkens “Low-anchored Cloud... Appreciation is expressed to Katherine Corkery & Michelle Green of the Environmental Awareness Unit, Cork County Council; Fran Igoe & Kieran Murphy of LAWPRO; Vincent Murphy; The Bantry font and source of Rivers!” Bay Hotel; The Eccles Hotel, The Maritime Hotel; Bantry Chamber of Commerce; Bantry Tidy Towns; The Students & Teachers of the Henry David Thoreau Schools of the Bantry Bay area for enthusiastic participation in StreamScapes Projects since 1989! Let ’s build ‘Catch ment Co nsciou sness’! Printed on Cocoon Offset Fibre sourcing and recycling 100% post-consumer fibres, FSC ® Recycled certified and PCF (Process Chlorine Free). Chemicals: no substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic, or repro-toxic (CMR) are used as raw materials. Printed using vegetable oil-based inks and water based varnishes and sealants. Chemicals and solvents used in the processes are recycled or safely disposed of outside the public drainage system. Welcome to the Water-Cycle! Our Catchment’s journey from Source to Sea All these things need water (well ok, maybe the water not ginger bread that’s on the people) earth today is (or dinosaurs) exactly the same water that was (but everything else) always here - no more and no less! But that’s only half the And story - how does it what about get up there in there people???? in the summer a big tree needs first place? about 200 buckets-full of Most animals need water eVERY DAY! to drink every Some animals day (adult humans don’t usually 2-3 litres) and die drink but get the within a few days water they need if they don’t in their food 1 wAter in 2 through the roots 3D Catchments water is used for all sorts of things in your home 3 4 5 6 The River Catchments of Bantry Bay A Catchment is a Community related by water! anaging our catchments requires Mus to understand and integrate a huge range of information - how people are using the water, including drinking, agriculture, industrial, use for bathing; the geography and geology of an area, Chun ár gcuid abhantrach a bhainistiú ní mór looking at how all the water bodies are dúinn glacadh le réimse leathan eolais agus an t-eolas úd a thuiscint - an leas a bhaintear as connected both above and below ground, uisce, mar shampla ól, talmhaíocht, tionsclaíocht, how the water flows from where it falls as níochán chomh maith le tíreolas agus geolaíocht rain to the sea: how people use the land an cheantair. Caithfear féachaint ar an gceangal and water bodies and what livelihoods idir na coirp uisce ar fad atá faoi thalamh agus os a chionn, ar an sruth uisce báistí chun are supported; and possible sources of farraige, ar an leas a bhaintear as an dtalamh pollution, including urban waste water chomh maith le coirp uisce chun slí beatha a treatment plants, septic tanks and runoff bhaint amach. Ní mór smaoineamh ar fhoinsí from farming, forestry, hard surfaces, a chruthódh truailliú mar fhearais chóireála fuíolluisce uirbeach, dabhaigh mhúnlaigh agus construction and landfills. The principle River Catchments of Bantry Between Rivers, Mountains, and taomadh ó fheirmeacha, foraoisí, dromchlaí Bay consist of several distinctive, dramatic, Valleys; and Bantry Bay with its In recent years there has been good crua, foirgníocht agus líonadh talún. and scenically beautiful valleys, which sweep exposure to the Atlantic Ocean, progress in tackling serious pollution down from the Caha and Shehy Mountain there is an unbelievable mixture Le blianta beaga anuas tharla an-chuid dul chun but small point and diffuse sources of cinn maidir le mórthruailliú a cheansú ach tá Ranges. Characterised by heavily glaciated old of Biodiversity. The Rivers host pollution and physical damage to river mórán fós le déanamh maidir le foinsí beaga red sandstone, these mountains and valleys Atlantic salmon, Sea Trout, Eels, corridors remain an issue. truaillithe is iad scaipthe óna chéile. Ceist mhór contribute rushing streams to the main River Otters, Kingfisher, Dippers and fós is ea an díobháil fhisiciúil a dhéantar do bhealaí abhann. This booklet is designed to inform channels which ultimately flow into Bantry the rare Freshwater Pearl Mussels; people of the part they play in nature’s Bay. The entire area is influenced by the Gulf the Bay sees cetacean visitation Is í aidhm an leabhráin seo ná eolas a scaipeadh Stream, and the region has the highest annual and local rare birds include ar an ról a bhíonn ag an bpobal maidir le cúrsaí water cycle and provide us with lots of nádúrtha uisce agus modhanna a mhíniú chun information on how we can reduce our mean temperatures in the World for its latitude. Choughs and White-Tailed (Sea) gur féidir linn ár dtionchar ar uiscí a laghdú. impact on waters. Hopefully, it will also Between source and sea of all of these Rivers lives Eagles. All of these species need Táthar ag súil dá bharr go mbeidh breis eolais encourage better informed individuals and a vibrant population who achieve sustainable special environmental care, and againn go léir ar na hábhair seo agus go communities to reconnect with their local livelihoods from both mountain and grassland the people of the Bantry Bay mbeimid in ann suim a chothú san abhainn atá gar dúinn agus cur le chéile chun gnáthóga agus river and work together to restore habitat farms, fishing, services, tourism, and a wide region are learning about the cáilíocht uisce araon a athnuachan. and water quality. variety of businesses. This area is also home to ‘Best-Practice’ needed to conserve proud cultural and sporting traditions. these miracles in our midst! 7 8 we are interested in Salmon and trout (the salmonids) because they are the proof of clean water and a healthy habitat - and they taste delicious too! 9 10 11 12 13 14 Our Wildlife If we can achieve high-quality waters in our water catchment, lots of benefits follow. If we can achieve high-quality waters in our Catchment, lots of benefits follow. These pictures show a few examples of the variety of birds which we might see in our Otter rivers and along their banks. Cormorant Dipper Eel Humans Salmon Egret Heron Kingfisher Minnow Trout Next time you visit the rivers in our catchment area, tick the boxes of any of the species shown here that you are lucky to see..
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