Biodiversity, wildlife & pest control.

Biodiversity

• The slow to mow campaign

https://www.dlrcoco.ie/biodiversity/nature-wildlife-areas

Wildlife 

As an established estate there is a significant amount of green areas, wildlife and pests (considered as vermin) within our area

Some examples of wildlife (good and bad)

• Foxes (estimated 150 to 200k in Ireland)

https://biodiversityireland.ie/surveys/urban-fox-survey/

• Red squirrells.

• Hedgehogs.

• Small birds.

• Insects, bees and butterflies.

• Mice 

• Rats

Some of the wildlife outlined above is deemed to be beneficial to our area and some of the above maybe not so much ?

Pest control (HSE and DLRCC)

• https://www.dlrcoco.ie/environmental-health/hse-pest-control-0

It may be beneficial to the overall area to generate some information through the residents and a residents association related to the wildlife in our estate and how to increase the positives for the area related to wildlife and how to manage the negatives if any related to wildlife / vermin in our area.