Nature & Biodiversity in your locality – 2019 report

Source: https://tidytowns.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/u_reports/2019/cork-west/2019-County-Cork_West-Skibbereen-693.pdf

“Groups are encouraged to host talks and walks to celebrate and embrace the natural habitats and wildlife species that are in their locality. This you are doing with the facilitated workshop on horticulture. There was also a workshop with Birdwatch Ireland on Swifts and their habitats. There was a photo display of wildlife at the River llen which was admired. There is also the Skibbereen Walking festival that takes walkers around the town and also out of the area. You have also completed a lot of planting that will encourage wildlife. The schools have planted wild flower seeds in the grounds of the schools. A stretch of roadside from the Aldi entrance has been turned into a pollinator corridor with the assistance of number of groups. There are also numerous wildflower meadows sown at different locations around the town. The Mills pollinator area was also noted. Part of the local walking tours through the town could be used to carry out a survey on some of the species that visit these new planting areas and document your findings. The schools can do likewise with the planting in the school grounds. There is certainly no shortage of natural habitats that could be explored.”