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Lough Boora, Co Offaly
http://www.loughbooraparklands.com/
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
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
