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Welcome to the Irish Environmental Network.
Irish Environmental Network represents to government the capacity building and funding needs of its member organisations, all of whom are involved in one way or another in the well-being, protection and enhancement of the environment. All these individual organisations attempt to achieve these aims through:
practical conservation work,
raising public awareness of environmental and conservation needs and
campaigning and lobbying.
Irish Environmental Network, with funding from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, collectively supports and co-ordinates these organisations so that they maximize their impact and effectiveness through combining their efforts in all of the above activities.
A valuable resource
The value of the environmental and ecological non-government sector in Ireland is immense. Over 6 million unpaid hours are invested every year by ordinary citizens who volunteer with our members. They do so with extra-ordinary vision and unending enthusiasm in caring for environmental sustainability and ecological regeneration. At the minimum wage rate this amounts to an investment of €55 million.
These organizations make a difference to the local environment through active research, conservation and protection programmes, through advocacy, planning and submissions to Government Policy, through an array of individual education and awareness programmes and they work together through liaison and co-operation in order to become ever more effective in ecological and environmental protection.
They encourage current-decision makers to take care of our natural resources through advocacy, planning and submissions to government policy. They help educate the decision-makers of the future through an array of individual education and awareness programmes and they work together through liaison and co-operation in order to become ever more effective in ecological and environmental protection.