Nature and environment
Filter by year:- Butterfly population drops again
- Larger numbers of rare breeding birds
- Number of vehicle wrecks stable
- Fewer meadow birds
- No increase in household waste
- Public bodies use less toxic pesticides
- Much less nitrogen in manure
- Strong decline in numbers of rays
- Farmers have to pay fifty million euro levies for surplus manure
- More winter birds in woods and parks
- Horticulture under glass increasingly fights insects with natural enemies
- Less chemical pesticide used in agriculture
- Bat colonies continue to recover