{"id":284103,"date":"2026-02-06T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284103\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:44:27","slug":"climate-changemakers-three-species-that-are-bouncing-back-in-ireland-thanks-to-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284103\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Changemakers: Three species that are bouncing back in Ireland thanks to conservation"},"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\">Here\u2019s a trio of heartening examples \u2013 the white-tailed sea eagle, the pine  marten and the lesser horseshoe bat \u2013 whose numbers are recovering here\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From left: A pine marten, a white-tailed eagle and a lesser horseshoe bat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/d5b82d11-1949-406c-8220-2395da2ebb3e.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)\">From left: A pine marten, a white-tailed eagle and a lesser horseshoe bat<\/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 urgency of tackling Ireland\u2019s biodiversity loss crisis was made clear at the end of 2025, when the Government published The Status of EU Protected Habitats and Species in Ireland, 2025 report, known as the Article 17. It found that 90pc of Ireland\u2019s protected habitats are in \u2018unfavourable\u2019 conservation status, while 51pc are showing deteriorating trends.<\/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)\">However, in recent years, Ireland has seen a number of notable success stories for species conservation. Here are three heartening examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s a trio of heartening examples \u2013 the white-tailed sea eagle, the pine marten and the lesser horseshoe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[86755,2885,246,61,60,279,82],"class_list":["post-284103","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\/284103","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=284103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}