CIEEM 2025 Ireland Conference Programme

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CIEEM 2025 Ireland Conference

Nature Restoration: Linking Policy and Practice in Ireland

Thursday 10th April 2025, Fota Island Resort, Cork

Morning Chair: David Kelleghan, Ireland Section Committee Convenor

SESSION 1
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
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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