📅 Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00–14:00
📍 Online (Zoom) – Register online here

Join LAWPRO and StreamScapes for an insightful lunchtime session exploring “Blue Dots” – Ireland’s most pristine rivers, lakes, and coastal waters. These exceptional water bodies are vital for biodiversity, crucial for healthy downstream ecosystems, and increasingly under pressure from human activity.
● Discover what makes Blue Dot waters so special
● Learn how they support rich ecosystems and local communities
● Understand the threats they face and what can be done to protect them
● Meet the Blue Dot team and your local Community Water Officers, Ellen Murphy (Cork
City & County) and Bláthnaid O’Loughlin (Kerry)
● Hear inspiring case studies of community action making a real difference
● Find out about funding opportunities to support your own river projects

Attendees will also receive access to StreamScapes’ new publications:
● Blue Dot Catchment Guidebook – a hands-on resource for communities and schools
to explore, assess, and take local action to protect high-status water bodies.
● Protecting Our Blue Dots: A Step-by-Step Guide for Tidy Towns Groups – a
practical, action-oriented handbook linking Tidy Towns efforts with Blue Dot conservation
goals.

Whether you’re part of a local community group, an environmental advocate, or simply someone
who loves your local water body, this is your chance to learn how we can all help keep our
waters healthy for generations to come.