Oisín O'Neill
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 Jul
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Hi, Derek.
I'm good, thanks.
Thanks for having me.
Yeah, so Invasive Species Week ran from the 22nd to the 28th of June.
And it's generally a week to bring awareness to one of the biggest pressures on biodiversity and nature in Ireland that we're currently facing, which are invasive species.
So we ran a campaign, basically, which was encouraging people to...
plant native trees and plants in their gardens and just to identify invasive species.
And we were putting out calls of action to people, to gardeners and to policymakers around this very urgent issue that we're facing in Ireland today.
Exactly.
Well, yeah, that's one of the big problems with invasive species.
People don't know what an invasive species is and people don't know what a native species is either.
So in order to combat this, there's a lot of great resources out there.
So a good place to start really is the National Biodiversity Data Centre.
They have a great slogan around this is to be plant wise.
And this means choosing plants that support biodiversity and don't escape into the wild and ultimately harm biodiversity.
But of course, to do this, you need to recognise what's native and what's invasive.
The good thing about the native species is, as we were telling people during the week, you can allow native species to recover by themselves.
So you don't actually have to go out and try to identify them and try to buy them, that sort of stuff.
If you let a patch of your garden
rewild or if you just let the seed bank come up, the native species will emerge.
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