Heartbroken to find tallaghts wetlands completely destroyed today. This was a vibrant multilayered ecosystem, home to protected Newts, Frogs, Bats & critically endangered European eels. @sdublincoco assured us this area & inhabitants would be protected. Environmental vandalism. https://t.co/3r90hQE6oq pic.twitter.com/pQUzlmXv7S
— The HSI (@HerpSocIreland) September 21, 2019
At Sean Walsh Memorial Park in Tallaght
This morning.
In The Irish Times.
Brian Hutton reports:
Thousands of creatures have been killed during the unexplained destruction of a “unique little gem” of a nature reserve in south Dublin, conservationists have said.
A parcel of wetland at Sean Walsh Memorial Park in Tallaght, used for decades as a dumping ground for silt, had rewilded itself into a “little miracle” that was home to several protected species, including frogs, newts, eels and bats, according to experts.
…On a trip to the wetland on Saturday to carry out a new survey of the wildlife he [Collie Ennis, a research associate at Trinity College Dublin and science officer with the Herpetological Society of Ireland] found that the entire reserve was “flattened like a carpark” and covered in heavy machinery tracks.
“It had completely gone. It was like the surface of the moon. Just blank. Flattened,” he said.
Anyone?
Ecologists outraged as Dublin nature reserve is ‘flattened like a car park’ (The Irish Times)
Disgraceful. But there is no real appreciation for the environment in government (whether local or otherwise) so I’m not surprised.
That’s a real nonsensical thing to say.
aren’t the Greens running SDCC or something?
too busy posing I’d imagine.
Shinners
6x SF, 4x Green …
Why do you post under two different usernames, dhaughton99?
I don’t. What other name?
I think she means me?
Oh. Okay. Must have been a mistake on my part, where I saw two identical comments, one posted by you and another by a poster called ‘Bertie’.
Again, I must be mistaken. Apologies.
The council run the council
No worries. Vlad is busy virtue signalling at the UN today. Shure we are all green now.
thanks blushirts
I’d love to hear the real story behind this, like who owned the diggers, who contracted the diggers to come in, what were they told to do, what is the longer term plan for this site, did they intentionally keep it quiet, how does this tie in with so-called green policies, did this decision come from SDCC or from Leinster Hse. Regardless, SDCC has some questions to answer, maybe start with FG mayor.
https://www.sdcc.ie/en/services/our-council/councillors/mayor-vicki-casserly.html
Sure what does it matter if we did get all this information?
Short of a live facebook murder what exactly would a council/public service worker have to do to be sanctioned?
Maybe send primetime investigates to there gaff
+1
@HerpSocIreland really?
Who counted the dead frogs, eels, newts, indeed were there any at all, and when these
creatures decide to cross a roadway, whats the kill statistics, one wonders which comes
first frogs or people…..even RTE were alarmed…….?