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Irish Peatland Conservation Council Awarded Funding to Produce a Trail Guide for Lodge Bog

The Irish Peatland Conservation Council have been awarded funding from Vodafone and Conservation Volunteers Ireland Nature Fund.  Vodafone and Conservation Volunteers Ireland Nature fund aims to encourage the appreciation and protection of Ireland's unique natural environment through the funding of locally-based environmental projects and initiatives.  

Some of the funding raised by Vodafone is through their mobile phone recycling scheme.  The Irish Peatland Conservation Council based at the Bog of Allen Nature Centre in Lullymore, Rathangan were among ten other applicants throughout Ireland to receive funding through this initiative.

The Irish Peatland Conservation Council will be producing a Trail Guide for the Boardwalk on Lodge Bog, a conserved raised bog in Lullymore. The guide will be available to visitors to the area and school groups doing field studies on the bog. The guide will allow visitors and school groups to walk along the boardwalk and follow an information trail, thus giving them knowledge on the location, history and the plants and animals visible from the boardwalk. Lodge Bog represents a habitat that is severely threatened
and disappearing from the landscape.  It is part of the Bog of Allen, which has been reduced by 95% of its original size.  This Trail Guide will help to raise awareness and educate visitors and school groups to appreciate the heritage of the bogs that surround them.

Lodge Bog was donated to the Irish Peatland Conservation Council by Bord na Mona in 2004.  It is 28 hectares in size and traditionally is an important education site in the Bog of Allen.  Through supporter donations and fundraising events the Irish Peatland Conservation Council had raised the funds to erect a 95 metre Boardwalk on Lodge Bog by the summer of 2005.

This summer the Irish Peatland Conservation Council are planning to block drains on Lodge Bog with the aim to further maintain and improve the raised bog habitat to ensure its survival in the industrial cutaway landscape.  To do this we will need your help. 


The Irish Peatland Conservation Council are always looking for volunteers to come along to the Bog of Allen Nature Centre and give a helping hand.  If you are interested either in helping us to block the drains on Lodge Bog or in coming along to the Bog of Allen Nature Centre please contact Nuala on 045-860133 or e-mail on bogs@ipcc.ie.

Editors Notes:

The Bog of Allen Nature Centre is being developed by the Irish Peatland Conservation Council as a centre of excellence for peatland conservation, education and research.  This centre is open to the Public Monday to Friday and weekends by appointment. 


Special weekend openings are International Bog Day on 30th July 2006 and 25th November.

 
If you should require any photographs of Lodge Bog, please telephone Nuala on 045-860133 or e-mail bogs@ipcc.ie

Irish Peatland Conservation Council
Bog of Allen Nature Centre,
Lullymore, Rathangan, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Tel 045-860133 Fax: 045-860481

www.ipcc.ie

bogs@ipcc.ie

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