Seán Ronayne guest speaker at Ballyhoura evening
Ballyhoura Development welcomes community members and community groups from across the Ballyhoura area and beyond to join them for the final closing event of the ‘Stop, Look, Listen: Preserving Biodiversity in Ballyhoura’ project. On the closing evening of the project, which is a community initiative led by Ballyhoura Development, the ornithologist Sean Ronayne (Irish Wildlife Sounds) will be the special guest speaker.
All are welcome to the very special evening at the Thomas Fitzgerald Centre in Bruff next Wednesday, 17th April at 7.30pm. There will be a tour of the local biodiversity projects by Bruff Tidy Towns, and all are welcome to come along on those guided tours starting at 6.30pm sharp.
The project - Shared Green Deal: Preserving Biodiversity – is an EU funded project which sought to raise awareness and knowledge on specific priority Green Deal topics, all of which contribute to the climate action and zero pollution ambitions of the Green Deal.
There will be an exhibition on the night of local biodiversity imagery and other images from the project across the year. There will also be a prize giving ceremony for the winners of the hugely successful ‘Stop Look & Listen’ photography competition.
IRISH WILDLIFE SOUNDS
Seán Ronayne, is an ornithologist and wildlife sound recordist and is on a personal mission to record the vocalisations of every bird species in Ireland. For three years, he has been documenting nearly 200 birds, including species on the cusp of extinction. On Wednesday, Seán will share his story and his unique and often surprising, recordings of mimicry, distinct dialects and birds never recorded in Ireland before. His journey reveals the beauty and importance of sound, and what listening can tell us about the state of our natural world.