Irish campaign urges drivers to stay alert for deer
Mayo County Council and the
National Parks and Wildlife Service have teamed up to launch a campaign reminding drivers in Ireland to watch out for deer. The Deer Aware campaign offers the fol- lowing advice to motorists:
• When you see a deer warning sign,
check your speed and stay alert. • Use full-beam if your headlights are on,
but dip them if a deer freezes. • More deer may follow the first. Be prepared to stop and avoid swerving. Denis Strong, deputy regional manager of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, said: "There are at least three species of wild deer in Ireland and around two million private cars, and the deer population is in- creasing. “As days get shorter in the autumn, busy traffic times coincide with dawn and the
early part of the night when deer are most active and hardest to spot. In wooded ar- eas in particular, there may be very little warning before one or several deer bolt across the road." Noel Gibbons, Mayo’s RSO, said: “Better data is helping us to focus on locations where we know there have been a higher number of collisions with deer, so we can use preventative measures - such as warn- ing signs and advice to drivers - as effec- tively as possible. "There are collision hotspots where there are high traffic volumes and high deer numbers, but drivers are advised to be aware that deer may cross near any wood- land areas. We really need drivers to slow down, take extra care and watch out for these animals - especially at this time of year."
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Salmon Return to all three Dublin Rivers
After a century of absence, wild Atlantic salmon are once again being found in the Tolka River in Dublin.
This means that Ireland's capital city now has three salmon rivers within its bounda- ries - the Liffey, the Dodder and the Tolka. The Irish Times reports that Inland Fisheries Ireland said it is the first record of wild salmon reproducing in the Tolka for at least 100 years. The re-colonisation of Dublin's rivers is being linked to reduced levels of pollution. Flood relief works have also
helped with the removal or modification of a significant number of man-made weirs to open up the river system to migratory fish. After work on the Tolka was completed, adult sea trout immediately ran the system all the way upstream to its headwaters in Dunboyne, Co Meath, for the first time in at least 150 years.
As recently as 2005, the Tolka was incapa- ble of supporting life because it was so pol- luted with chemicals.
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