This week, the Palus Demos team – farmers, industry partners, researchers and policymakers – are gathered in Manchester this week for our third partner meeting. To coincide with it, we are launching the Palus Demos YouTube channel — and we’ve put together a 10-minute video, introducing just some of our partners across farming, industry, academia … Read more
John O’Sullivan is a west of Ireland farmer who needed new ways to keep his family business, Derreighter Farm, viable. For John, paludiculture is a practical response to real pressure — a potential income stream that works with the land rather than against it. Sinéad Grimes of Forum Connemara sees it as something bigger: a … Read more
Biodiversity has a soundtrack. We all hear birdsong, even in a concrete jungle, but when a landscape is truly thriving, layers of sound emerge: from the flutter of wings to the splash of a tail darting through the water. Oswin van der Scheer is listening closely at the Burkmeer site in Amsterdam, the pilot location … Read more
If you’ve been at a pub in Dublin or Cork in recent months, you may have spotted some specially commissioned beer mats, which tell the story of Ireland’s rich peatland heritage. The beermats include facts and figures about the cultural history and biodiversity of the island’s bogs, with artwork by Eleanor Brayden. The project is a … Read more