Lough Boora, Co Offaly

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Lough Boora, Co Offaly

Lough Boora Parklands are a beautiful landscape at the centre of Ireland – a paradise for outdoor enthusiasts. Through a creative combination of nature and the human hand new habitats are emerging on the cutaway bogs of Co. Offaly. Lands cloaked with great raised bogs for 10,000 years are at the dawn of a new era. Bogs harvested by Bord na Móna for energy since the 1940s are establishing as unique and welcoming habitats for a wide range of flora and fauna.

The parklands consist of a magnificant collection of natural & manmade lakes, wetlands, woodland areas, 50km of walkways, natural recolonisation and pastureland whilst providing a new habitat for wildlife,  flora & fauna.

Lough Boora Parklands, Co Offaly

 

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 Volunteering for BioBlitz 2012 at Lough Boora Parklands

Lough Boora Volunteers
Name Area of expertise
Catherine Farrell Basecamp
Mark McCorry Basecamp
David Fallon Basecamp
Thomas Egan Basecamp
Eugenie Regan Basecamp
Maria Walsh Basecamp
   
Amanda Pedlow Basecamp
Sean Craven  Basecamp
Richard Jack Basecamp
Lisa Healy Basecamp
Helen Darcy Basecamp
   
Pat Roberts aquatic inverts/general
Niamh Roche Bats
Alex Copeland Birds
Brian Caffrey Birds
Kathryn Finney Birds
Fintan Bracken Birds
Tom Ryan Birds
Mike Maunsell Birds
Eabhin Byrne Birds
Tom Moore Birds, butterflies, dragonflies
Aoife Moore Birds, butterflies, dragonflies
Michael Bell Birds, moths, dragonflies
John McNiff Boora Manager
Maurice Eakin Bryophytes
Michael Jacob Butterflies
Paddy Rowland Communications
Martin Gammell Diatoms & freshwater invertebrates
Jane Gilleran Fish & invertebrates
Aine O’Connor Freshwater invertebrates
Jim Ryan Freshwater invertebrates
Kieran Connolly Fungi
Kieran Buckley General
Colm Malone General
Richard Whelan General
Niamh Coughlan General
Padraic Fogarty  General
John Kirwan  General
Toos van Noorwijk General
Martijn General
Don O’Boyle Health & Safety
Stephen McCormack Insects
   
Paul Whelan Lichens
Caitríona Carlin Mammals
Kieran Buckley Mammals
Paddy Kelly Mammals
Frank Nugent Mammals
Kieran Sadler Mammals
Ciara Flynn Moths
Michael O’Donnell Moths
Fiona MacGowan Plants
Fiona Devery Plants
Charles Shier Plants
   
Lisa Dowling Plants
Stephen Heery Plants, birds
George Smyth Plants, bryophytes
Anne Murray Plants,birds
   
   

 

 For more information or to volunteer please contact:Eugenie Regan or Maria Walsh (National Biodiversity Data Centre)Lough Boorainfo@biodiversityireland.ieOrCatherine Farrell (Bord Na Móna)catherine.farrell@bnm.ie