Exploring Our Roots

Give two hoots about nature…?

appening from Friday, May 19th to Sunday 28th, there are all sorts of goodies lined up in Wicklow for this year’s Biodiversity Week.

The most curious being, eh, Hedge Bothering in Kindlestown Wood.

Which we reckon is some kind of vigilante clampdown on dogging.

With all events free, the week starts with The Journey So Far, a webinar by some of our more tuned-in teenagers (7pm-8pm; booking here), a biodiversity walk through Devil’s Glen on Friday 19th from 2pm to 4pm and a Leave No Trace Awareness Course at Powerscourt Waterfall at 10am to 5pm (and again on the 20th from 10am to 4pm), a guided walk aimed primarily at kids through the grounds of Altidore Castle from 2.30pm on Saturday 20th, a Sustainable Gardening talk with Aoife Munn at Ballyraine Campus on Sunday 21st from 10.30am to 1pm and a Bee & Wasp walk at Russborough House from 10.30am to 1pm, The Barn Owl In Wicklow at the Baltinglass Library on Tuesday 23rd from 6.30pm to 8.30pm, The Life Of Our Rivers with Keith Scanlon on Thursday 25th at 7pm (meeting at Archers Wood tennis courts) plus Wicklow Murrough Shores talk from 6pm to 7pm, Mill Lane Invasive Species Survey & Workshop with Greystones Tidy Town’s Adam Calihman from 11am to 12.30pm on Saturday 27th (meeting at Aldi), whilst on Sunday 28th, there’s Riders On The Storm: Honest Chats About A World On Fire, happening at The Happy Pear at 7.30pm (tickets here), the Clean Coasts North Wicklow monthly beach clean at 10am (meeting at Rise At The Cove) plus that mysterious Hedge Bothering with Astrid Adler in Kindlestown Wood, from 10am to 12pm.

There’s also two that that aren’t on the official Biodiversity Week website but are on the Wicklow County Council poster. A Dragonfly & Damselfly workshop at the Glendalough Education Centre on Saturday 27th from 10am to 3pm, and the sweetly-titled Chats About A World On Fire on the 28th at the Glencree Centre, 7pm to 8.30pm.

Best get in touch with the Glencree crew directly for that latter on info@glencree.ie, and Deirdre at Wicklow Heritage on email here for the former.

In the meantime, you can try and find out more about Biodiversity Week right about here, and see how our own eco chamber is doing here.