Biodiversity
StreamScapes produces imaginative publications and projects to increase awareness of the wealth of Biodiversity which inhabits healthy environments, and encourages action to assess, conserve, and enhance these species and habitats in your locality and throughout Ireland:
Proposal for an ‘All-Ireland Wildlife Web’
(A simple but revolutionary proposal to establish linkages/corridors between existing protected areas)
Download this introduction to Biodiversity survey and learn how you can contribute to the National Biodiversity Data Centre
Farming & Biodiversity Competition
In the absence of dedicated environmental studies,StreamScapes produced this Annual National Compeition for Secondary Agricultural Science students for several years with support from EPA & NPWS
Freshwater Pearl Mussel (FPM) Captive Breeding Research
From 2007 Coomhola Salmon Trust hosted this FPM (Margaritifera margaritifera and M. durrovensis) Project and used it as a basis for a Biodiversity Educational Programme.
Photo below is of microscopic juvenile mussel glochidia on a trout’s gill at 250x (Photo by Dr. Evelyn Moorkens taken at Coomhola Salmon Trust Research Facility).
