Reconnect

31/07/2017

Huge thank you to Inland Fisheries Ireland for helping us survey fish upstream and downstream of weirs for the last two weeks. Check out the beautiful sea trout we caught downstream of the lowermost barrier on one of our study rivers

31/05/2017

Ireland's River Obstacles app records are getting bigger everyday! A big thanks to everyone who has contributed so far. Keep up the good work! https://www.river-obstacles.org.uk/map/

04/04/2017

28/02/2017

Massive thank you to everyone that has submitted records so far, especially the individual that submitted a total of 8 records for the Bandon catchment today! Fantastic work!

06/02/2017

Here is the first issue of our newsletter! It introduces the Reconnect project, river obstacles and citizen science!http://www.ucd.ie/t4cms/newsletter_one.pdf

23/01/2017

Huge thank you to everyone who has helped record Irish river obstacles so far! We have a total of 56 citizen scientist records now in 14 different counties! Keep up the good work guys! Anybody interested in helping out you can download the river obstacles app from this page or here: http://www.river-obstacles.org.uk/

There are thousands of man made and natural obstacles in the rivers of the UK. Many of the man made obstacles perform important functions - for example dams, sluices, weirs and road culverts - but they can also cause problems such as restricting the movement of fish, damaging river banks and beds, a...

20/01/2017

All the way from the Sargasso Sea – this year’s glass eels have arrived into the Lower River Shannon in Limerick City! We recorded glass eels in kick samples taken during early January …

02/01/2017

Delighted to see dam removal as one of the big five environmental wins of 2016! Let's hope this trend continues in 2017!

Sure, it's been a tumultuous year for the planet. But here are some environmental achievements to celebrate: renewable energy, protected oceans, and deconstructed dams.

29/11/2016

River Lee Activists Hoping to Return Salmon http://ow.ly/eTyM306CIGX

27/11/2016

Huge thank you to everyone who has helped record Irish river obstacles so far! Keep up the good work guys! Anybody interested in helping out you can download the river obstacles app from this page or here: http://www.river-obstacles.org.uk/

24/11/2016

For anyone interested in learning more about the Reconnect project as a whole, check out this video by Waxwing Wildlife Productions! Thank you Stan for the amazing drone footage and for taking the time to interview us all and put this together.

This is an eight minute video of the UCD Reconnect project in its initial phase. UCD are recording and assessing man-made river barriers throughout Ireland.