{"id":261504,"date":"2026-01-24T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261504\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:31:09","slug":"climate-changemakers-offshore-windfarms-should-not-be-located-in-key-marine-habitats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/261504\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Changemakers: \u2018Offshore windfarms should not be located in key marine habitats\u2019"},"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\">Blue Ireland are fighting the good fight to help protect Irish ecosystems while also pushing for our transition away from fossil-fuel dependency\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dublin Bay ecosystems support red-listed species such as kittiwakes. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ettyImages_90052932.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)\">Dublin Bay ecosystems support red-listed species such as kittiwakes. 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)\">Ireland\u2019s need to transition away from fossil fuel dependency is clear \u2013 but it is important that valuable habitats and ecosystems are not lost in the process, says Val Freeman, a scientist and founding member of Blue Ireland CLG.<\/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)\">Blue Ireland is a coalition of citizens\u2019 groups who have come together with a goal of protecting key marine ecosystems, in light of government plans for major offshore wind development around the Irish coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blue Ireland are fighting the good fight to help protect Irish ecosystems while also pushing for our transition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[86755,2885,246,61,60,279,82],"class_list":["post-261504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-aisling-maria-cronin","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261504","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=261504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}