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Northern Ireland | The lapwings of Lisnaskea 6 November 2009 Imagine having a whole area of international conservation importance on your doorstep? Would you be in the Amazon, Sumatra or the Grand Canyon? What about Lisnaskea in Co Fermanagh? |
 | Children of Faughvale prepare feast for feathered friends 6 November 2009 What’s a blackbird’s favourite nibble? Which bird is nuts about peanuts? When would you use a birdtable or birdfeeder? That’s the lessons students at Faughanvale school are learning during the countdown to Feed The Birds Day. And already the children are attracting birds aplenty with a feast of healthy treats in their school garden. |
 | On to gate things 6 November 2009 Arguably the best urban bird spectacle in the UK, RSPB’s Belfast Harbour Reserve will be even better for the bird life it supports. |
 | Schools get snappy with Nature's Hotspots 5 October 2009 Portadown College is getting snappy at their local nature reserve and its all for a good cause. They’ve been looking at RSPB’s Portmore Lough, their local Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI), through the lens of a camera as part of the RSPB’s ‘Nature’s Hotspots’ photography competition.
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 | Farmers predict bumper harvest of photos 30 September 2009 All over the county, the members from the Young Farmers’ Club of Ulster are stepping out of the milking parlours and parking their tractors to get involved in the new RSPB Photo Competition. ‘Nature’s Hotspots’ is a photographic celebration of Northern Ireland’s great outdoors. |
 | Small is big and beautiful 27 September 2009 When is small really large? When it is Lough Beg, the site of RSPB’s latest large-scale habitat restoration programme in Northern Ireland.
The RSPB, with funding from Biffaward, have put in place the Lough Beg Habitat Restoration initiative. Part of the RSPB’s Futurescapes programme, it encourages communities to collectively manage their land and gradually improve ever-growing areas of habitats throughout the countryside.
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 | Time to kick-start renewable energy revolution in Northern Ireland 23 September 2009 The Government’s new energy plan must prepare Northern Ireland for a renewable energy revolution – that is the view of the RSPB as it responds to the Strategic Energy Framework published by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI). |
 | Polluters will now really pay 21 September 2009 RSPB NI is delighted that environmental polluters will be made responsible for the damage they inflict. |
 | Northern Irish farmer wins prestigious UK farming award 14 September 2009 Michael Calvert of Barnwell Farms in Greyabbey, Co Down, is the UK winner for the Nature of Farming Award. The prize, sponsored by the RSPB, Butterfly Conservation, Plantlife and the BBC’s Countryfile magazine, is the most prestigious award for farming in harmony with the environment. |
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