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For immediate release 11 October 1996
This week the Irish Peatland Conservation Council (see Editors Note 1) will be conducting a special two day training course for instructors from education centres throughout Ireland focusing on bogs and peat issues.
The residential course, based at Kilfinane Outdoor Education Centre and taking in visits to Ballylanders Bog, the Ballyhoura Hills and Kilcolman Wildfowl Refuge, will involve indoor and outdoor activities focusing on bogs, including model making, scientific investigations and experiments and debating environmental issues.
Twenty instructors are attending the course from both the North and Republic of Ireland. As Dr. O'Connell, the IPCC Education Officer comments "I hope that this course will provide instructors with the expertise they need to stimulate a greater awareness of the heritage of the bogs of Limerick".
This training initiative is being sponsored by the British
Ecological Society, The Department of Environment, Northern Ireland
and the IPCC's Environmental Education Foundation.
EDITOR'S NOTE 1: The Irish Peatland Conservation Council is a national charity and is entirely supported by voluntary contributions. Conservation projects include: purchasing bogland nature reserves, providing resources and training for teachers and education groups, repairing damaged bogs, fostering a positive attitude towards bogs, and encouraging lifestyles in harmony with the environment. The IPCC can be contacted at: Capel Chambers, 119 Capel Street, Dublin 1. Tel: 01-872 2397. Registered Charity Number: CHY6829
EDITOR'S NOTE 2: The work of the Irish Peatland Conservation
Council is supported by the FÁS Community Employment Program.
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