Pond Creation and Water Management with Féidhlim Harty

A day long workshop exploring managing Water on the Land - Nature Restoration and Biodiversity took place on Sat, 08 Nov  | 10.30 - 4.30pm 

Location: Slieve Aughty Centre, Kylebrack, Loughrea, H62DX77

We enjoyed a hugly informative and inspiring workshop on all things water management, ponds and wetlands, with renowned environmental consultant and author Féidhlim Harty. During the day long workshop we explored the wetlands and ponds recently dug in August this year at the Slieve Aughty Centre, as part of a new Nature Restoration & Biodiversity Education Demonstration Project in partnership between CELT and the Slieve Aughty Centre manged by Forestor Julius Silvan

Together, on the day we assessed how these new habitats are developing and discussed the increasingly essential and practical approaches to encouraging biodiversity while managing water on farmland and in home settings. This hands-on session offered a great opportunity to learn about natural water retention, biodiversity enhancement, nature based solutions to flooding, climate action & sustainable landscape design.

The workshop briefly explored the role of conventional land and water management in addressing many of the problems that we see around flooding, climate breakdown and the biodiversity crisis and on the solutions for turning these problems around. This course was solutions oriented and practical, identifying and showcasing practical measures that can be adapted for any farm, urban area, stream or river catchment.

This workshop is part of CELT’s Biodiversity Action Plan Implementation, supported by the Community Foundation Ireland and The Hare’s Corner Ponds – Burrenbeo Trust.

Pond Expert and Workshop Facilitator Feidhlim Harty of FH Wetland Systems - offers consultancy, workshops and resources to help support you, your community, farm or local area to create space for nature and to find more nature-friendly ways to farm, garden or design edible planting elements within public and urban areas: for more about Feidlims work please visit his website where he writes... - https://wetlandsystems.ie

 "Ecologist and writer EO Wilson has called for a Half-Earth policy, to dedicate half of the planet as space for nature, in a natural “wild” state to ensure that the biological diversity of life can thrive; and half for people, including space for housing, crops and livestock. With such a measure we can restore habitats, protect biodiversity, sequester atmospheric carbon in soil and plants, and generally make the planet more liveable in for ourselves and for every other species."

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