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# irish rivers

This year

2023

Extract: 'Gently paced and physically undemanding, the voyage was the essence of slow travel'

Explorer, artist and ecologist Gwen Wilkinson shares an extract from her book The Waters and the Wild.

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Jun 4th 2023, 7:30 AM

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New river rules seek to protect native Irish crayfish from plague-carrying alien invaders

Irish crayfish have been heavily impacted by plague in recent years.

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Nov 14th 2018, 3:33 PM