Concerns have been raised after a recent fire broke out on a mountain in the Sliabh Beagh area.<\/p>\n
While the full circumstances are still unclear, local conservationists are concerned that the fire may have been deliberately set.<\/p>\n
Donal Beaggan is a member of the recently formed Sliabh Beagh Curlew Conservation Trust.<\/p>\n
In a landscape where so much care and effort goes into protecting vulnerable wildlife, Donal said this recent incident was “incredibly hard to see.”<\/p>\n
Although the fire service was able to stop the fire, the disturbance level was just too much and the curlew in the area abandoned their nest.<\/p>\n
According to Donal, weeks of monitoring, protection, and hope went into this nest and too lose it in such a way is “deeply upsetting for everyone involved.”<\/p>\n
Speaking to Northern Sound, Donal warned that losses like this do not just affect the present moment but can contribute to the long-term decline of the species in this area for future generations.<\/p>\n
He appealed to visitors who are out on the hills to please remain mindful of fire risk and report anything concerning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Concerns have been raised after a recent fire broke out on a mountain in the Sliabh Beagh area.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-437281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437281","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=437281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}