{"id":201441,"date":"2025-12-20T05:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201441\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T05:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:59:09","slug":"climate-changemakers-three-good-news-stories-for-nature-in-ireland-during-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201441\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Changemakers: Three good news stories for nature in Ireland during 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From one of our best-known woodlands to the return of the corncrake to a boost for our seas, these stories show much-needed change is on the way \u2013 even as more progress needs to be made, say environmental groups\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The corncrake is a bird that has steeply declined in Ireland over the last century but its numbers are beginning to grow. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0bccfaf9-9312-4700-b465-40b65ef989f7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The corncrake is a bird that has steeply declined in Ireland over the last century but its numbers are beginning to grow. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When assessing the current state of nature and biodiversity in Ireland, it is easy to sink into gloom or apathy. However, there are reasons to be hopeful. Here are three positive developments for nature that took place in Ireland this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Glen of the Downs nature reserve in Co Wicklow is one of Ireland\u2019s best-known oak woodlands. This ecologically critical woodland supports many important plants and fungi, including Turner\u2019s Threadwort, a plant species found in only five sites in Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From one of our best-known woodlands to the return of the corncrake to a boost for our seas,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[86755,2885,61,60,43,279],"class_list":["post-201441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aisling-maria-cronin","tag-climate-change","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}