On the 26th May 2017 Maynooth University hosted the 2nd annual Biodiversity Day to highlight the progress of the All Ireland Pollinator plan across the region. The AIPP provides guidelines and actions to help protect important pollinating insect species and reverse the dramatic declines observed in the numbers of our native bee species over the past decades. The guidelines are tailored specifically for different sectors including schools, tidy towns, businesses, county councils etc. and we were very lucky to have representatives from each of these sectors present on the day to describe their initiatives. One of the goals of this year’s meeting was to highlight the importance of recording pollinator friendly actions on the National Biodiversity database which allows individuals to see their contributions on a local and regional scale. Such activities are important to give members of the public a sense that even small actions can add up to meaningful change.
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Maynooth University Biodiversity Day article
