Below you can find the CIEEM 2025 Ireland Conference programme, or click ‘download’ on the right hand side to download a physical copy.
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CIEEM 2025 Ireland ConferenceNature Restoration: Linking Policy and Practice in Ireland Thursday 10th April 2025, Fota Island Resort, Cork |
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Morning Chair: David Kelleghan, Ireland Section Committee Convenor SESSION 1 |
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9.00 | Registration Open |
9.45 | Welcome and Introduction |
9.50 |
Opening address: Minister Christopher O’Sullivan Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage with special responsibility for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity |
10.00 |
The Nature Restoration Regulation: State of play and next steps Kim De Rijck, European Commission – DG Environment |
10.25 |
Restoring Annex I habitats under Ireland’s National Restoration Plan Dr Jenni Roche MCIEEM, National Parks and Wildlife Services |
10.50 |
Nature Restoration with Communities Paula Kearney CEcol MCIEEM, Galway City Council |
11.15 | Break |
SESSION 2 | |
11:35 |
Restoration learnings from the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan – engagement, action & monitoring Úna FitzPatrick, National Biodiversity Data Centre |
12.00 |
Uisce Éireann’s Biodiversity Action Plan: Progress, Challenges and Lessons Learned Dr Brian Deegan MCIEEM, Uisce Éireann |
12:25 |
Tóchar Midlands Wetland Restoration – the path to restoration Shirley Clerkin, Tóchar Midlands Wetland Restoration, NPWS |
12.50 | Lunch |
Afternoon Chair: Donncha Madden, Ireland Policy Group Chair SESSION 3 |
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13:50 |
ReFarm: leveraging private finance to support nature restoration at farm scale in Ireland Dr Martha O’Hagan-Luff, Trinity College Dublin |
14:15 |
Bringing Biodiversity Back Brian O’Toole, Wildacres Nature Reserve and Biodiversity Education Centre |
14:40 |
Dark sky restoration through environmental lighting design Kerem Asfuroglu, Dark Source |
15.05 |
Rebuilding Nature and the Ecological Restoration SIG: Lessons from Large Scale Nature Recovery and Restoration approaches across these islands Dr Tim Graham MCIEEM, RSK Wilding/RSK Biocensus |
15:15 | Break |
SESSION 4 | |
15.35 |
Brant Fell Natural Flood Management Lesson Learnt – Cumbria, UK Ryan Jennings MCIWEM C.WEM, JBA Consulting |
16.00 |
Nature Restoration: Opportunity for Linking Policy to Practice in Irish Marine Waters Dr Rob Rowlands CEnv MCIEEM and Aoife Edgely CEnv MIEnvSc, RPS |
16.25 |
Landscape scale screening for managed realignment in Ireland Tom Gittings MCIEEM, BirdWatch Ireland |
16.50 | Summary and Close: Tom Butterworth, CIEEM Fellow |
17.00 | Finish |
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