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As part of Heritage Week Join Éanna Ní Lamhna for a fascinating bi-lingual talk about the Biodiversity of Dublin City - Bithéagsúlacht na cathrach. Éanna will talk about the surprisingly rich biodiversity of a city of almost a million people including new arrivals like the woodpecker, the little egret and the comma butterfly. She will also discuss the surprising fact that our waterways and rivers are so clean that there are otters and kingfishers in abundance. And that the abundance of jellyfish - smugairle rón which literally means seal's snot - is not a good thing, resulting as it does from overfishing and warming ocean currents. Please note This will be a bi-lingual talk, Gaeilge and English. However, the presentation is such that fluency in Irish is not required to fully understand or enjoy the talk. ------------------- Biography Eanna Ni Lamhna qualified as a scientist in the 1970’s and did her post graduate thesis on the ecology of sand dunes and saltmarshes which was published in the Journal of Life Sciences. She set up the Irish Biological Records Centre in 1974 and is responsible for the original distribution maps of mammal and insects. She lectured postgraduates and M. Sc. students on sustainability for 20 years in TU Dublin. Her publications include a series of five studies on Irish Air Quality, nine books including Wild Dublin (which was recently updated and re-issued) and currently – The Great Irish Biodiversity Book. She was President of An Taisce from 2004 – 2009 and more recently President of the Tree Council of Ireland. She is a judge of Environmental initiatives undertaken by local groups on a county level such as Pride of Place and Love Where You Live, as well as the Powerscourt Working With Nature Awards and the Irish Times Ireland's Greenest places. She is a highly respected radio and television broadcaster on environmental issues. She writes the weekly Eye on Nature column in the Irish Times. She is a Co. Louth woman and has a husband, three children and seven grandchildren. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in Science by the University of Galway in November 2024 – the first Irishwoman to be awarded a D Sc. by that university.

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