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The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is appealing for information on recent unauthorised turf-cutting, which took place at the protected...

The Habitats Directive was signed in 1992, and 53 raised bogs - approximately 2% of the national peatlands from which turf can be extracted - were nominated for designation...

The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht will today address the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament to outline progress made in the protection of 53 raised bog Special Areas of Conservation in Ireland...