The Irish Environmental Network

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There’s still time to register for the Young Environmentalist Awards 2010. The project submission deadline is Friday 26 February. Register Now!
ECO-UNESCO, Ireland’s environmental education and youth organisation, is inviting all young people aged between 12 and 18 years old to carry out an environmental action project with their schools or youth groups and [...]

Earth Hour officially kicked off on February 1st in China with a major show of support from Chengdu, the first city in the country to commit to turning off its lights. Chengdu, among the world’s mega cites with over 13 million resident, is the hometown to the Giant Panda, an ancient species that has been [...]

Michael Ewing has been appointed as the IEN coordinator as of January 27. He will be responsible for management of all the employees of IEN. The position was created to add structure to the Secretariat, and give clear lines of responsibility for the implemention of the network’s recently completed Strategic Framework Document.
“I would like to [...]

Just Forests is to be showcased on the IUCN COUNTDOWN 2010 website as a Featured Partner for the month of February 2010.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) who facilitate the COUNTDOWN 2010 initiative are the world’s largest conservation body with over 1000 partner organizations on all continents. 2010 has been declared by [...]

Just Forests welcomes the EU Council’s announcement (Brussels, 28th January 2010) of an agreed draft regulation laying down obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the European market
“For many years we have campaigned on this issue of illegal timber entering Ireland”, according to Tom Roche of Just Forests.
Ireland has a particular responsibility [...]