Our survey highlights growing concern over pesticide use in Irish schools and the need to introduce a ban. Here at Biodiversity in Schools we have spent much time travelling around the country meeting teachers and students. In recent years we anecdotally felt a strong and even growing prevalence in the use of pesticide sprays on school grounds. This year as part of our Pollinator Project in partnership with SIRO we decided to investigate this further. Through March to May thi

The use of sprays such as herbicides have a catastrophic effect on biodiversity. It is therefore our opinion at ‘Biodiversity in Schools’ that they should never be used on school grounds.

We recently had the pleasure of meeting the wonderful Anja Murray at the Environment Ireland Conference . Anja chaired the biodiversity session in which we spoke about Irish nature education. Our Collaborations Manager, Katherina Di Cristina, takes a look at Anja's new book Frog Routes, Polka-Dot Newts and Other Treasures of Irish Nature . Ireland has beautiful seasons. There are seasons everywhere, whether they’re the traditional SEASONS™ of the temperate world (Autumn, Win

Our Collaborations Manager Katherina Di Cristina explores the importance of nature tables in the Irish classroom and launches a fun competition.