Philip Boucher Hayes

And it is important to note that Bordnemona says it facilitates significant biodiversity enhancement, peatland restoration and re-wetting.

And following the construction of wind, solar or energy storage infrastructure...

the surrounding landscape will always be restored to a mosaic of wetland, peatland and woodland habitats interspersed with energy infrastructure.

Yes, Ireland is in this situation where we are the 34th worst in the world of 174 countries measured when it comes to nature conservation.

And the country's leading ecologists say

say that the state needs now to play referee between all these demands for land and the ever-shrinking amount of habitat left in Ireland.

I met with Jesmyn Harding, the author of a magnificent book called The Irish Butterfly Book.

He took me to Lullybeg Bog in Kildare in search of the endangered marsh fritillary.

Lullybeg is an area that he would like to see conserved as a national park, but Bòrd na Móna has plans to develop as a wind farm.

Nine o'clock in the morning, 21 degrees centigrade.

Good butterfly weather?

It's very good butterfly weather.

In 2010, there were six butterfly species that were vulnerable or endangered.

The new list about to be published this year will show that there are now 19 species vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered, mostly because they are losing places to live in an unplanned, uncoordinated countryside.

There we go.

It would take a team of artists with the finest pencils and colours in the world hours to replicate what is on that fella's wings, wouldn't it?

It really is such a short window of opportunity in which to do what he has to do.

Three days to do it.

Absolutely.

Get on with it, fella.