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Tralee Bay Wetlands together with Kerry County Museum will mark and celebrate St Bridget’s Day tomorrow Tuesday, February 1st 2022.

We invite you to commemorate the day with us and learn to make traditional St. Brigid’s crosses in our wetlands. You will discover where the rushes grow and a hear about their heritage and role in their habitat. Join Alan Balfe, Centre Ecologist for Tralee Bay Wetlands and Claudia Kohler and Hazel Ramsey of Kerry County Museum to learn more and go on a most interesting guided walking tour of the wetlands, collecting rushes on route, to make your very own St Bridget’s Day cross afterwards for your home. 

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“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit."

The benefits of planting native trees cannot be emphasised enough. The presence of trees in our locality protect and improve not just the physical environment and its biodiversity but also our own health and wellbeing.

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Tree Planting

This year we planted over 600 trees in the public amenity area of The Wetlands. We also helped The Green school in Tralee plant over 100 trees on their land as part of the school’s own initiative to increase environmental awareness amongst their students. We have planted a diverse range of trees like Oak, Alder, Birch, Holly, Hazel, Rowan, Spindle, Cherry and Whitehorn. All of which will sequester carbon in their structure, in the soil beneath them and they will provide pollen, fruits and shelters for birds and invertebrates.

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