Wed 6 Mar 4.30pm • Paul Reilly takes a trip to Castle Espie to look at how a quarry has become a haven for birds in Northern Ireland ...

Castle Espie gears up to celebrate World Wetlands Day as it protects many at-risk species of birds. ... "Locally, there are over 80,000 hectares of wetland in Northern Ireland, ...

Maghaberry prisoners have created dozens of nesting and breeding boxes for endangered birds at Castle Espie in Co Down. More than 30 have been made for the wetland reserve on the shore of ...

Northern Ireland Tributes paid to conservationist and Castle Espie founder Paddy Mackie A love of flora and fauna saw former Mackies engineer found one of Ireland’s most important wetland reserves ...

Disease control measures have been introduced at Castle Espie in County Down after a case of bird flu was found in samples collected from captive birds. The Department of Agriculture said a 1.9 ...

Castle Espie Wetland Centre has opened its newly built visitor centre to the general public. The £4.3 million development in Comber is the result of many months of careful planning and ‘slow ...

The temporary control zone at Castle Espie has now become a 1.9 mile (3km) "captive bird monitoring zone" on the instructions of Northern Ireland's Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Robert Huey.

Paddy Mackie, who has died aged 93, was a noted conservationist in Northern Ireland who created the wildlife refuge of Castle Espie, and also won the RHS’s AJ Waley medal for his rhododendrons ...

As the centre manager at Castle Espie Wetland Reserve in County Down ... But they are declining at three times the rate of forests. Northern Ireland is home to many wetland habitats, but only ...

In the 1970s, he founded Castle Espie, ... creation of Castle Espie in the 1970s remain legendary - widely regarded as the cradle of modern environmentalism in Northern Ireland.