Beemune Ltd - a new company spun out from NUI Maynooth - has been formed to tackle one of the biggest threats to global food production - the widespread disease and premature death of the world's bee population.

Teagasc has produced the first and only high resolution national land cover and habitat maps of Ireland.

The Golden Eagle Trust has appealed to farming organisations to tackle the issue of illegal toxin use, following confirmation that a ten-month-old Irish-born golden eagle chick was poisoned in the northwest.

Mr. John Gormley TD, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, addressed the European Environment Bureau Law Group’s seminar on Law and Law Enforcement for Biodiversity Protection, held in the European Parliament’s Dublin offices.

The Central Fisheries Board has secured €1.5 million in funding from the European Community (EC) under the Life+ programme to control and eradicate invasive species in Lough Corrib, The Grand Canal and in the Barrow Navigation Line.

Nearly half of all primate species are now in danger of becoming extinct, research published recently has revealed.

The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government notice - Birds and Wildlife Nesting and Breeding Season: Restrictions on the destruction of hedgerows and the destruction of vegetation on uncultivated land - will take effect from 1 March to 31 August 2010.

Up to 50 birds of prey will be released into the wild this year, but conservation projects remain under threat amid poisoning fears.

A deadly fungus that wipes out honeybees has arrived in Northern Ireland for the first time.

A €3m blueprint that places farmers at the centre of Burren conservation is to be rolled out across 100 farms in the area.

It may be the bane of the gardener’s life, but weeds such as the dandelion and thistle could be the key to the survival of one of Ireland’s rarest native birds.

Northern Ireland Environment Minister, Edwin Poots, has announced the appointment of Judith Annett as the new Chair of the Northern Ireland Biodiversity Group.