The Molecular Ecology Research Group at Waterford Institute of Technology short listed for the shortlisted for The Irish Laboratory Awards –Research Laboratory of the Year

MISE meets Irish President, Michael D Higgins.

A blog entry about David O’Neill et al.’s otter DNA paper  about the genetic identification of otters from spraints.

Articles from  Mulkear LIFE and Duhallow LIFE projects about their experience at the IUCN European Otter Workshop.

A report from the Wexford Field Naturalists’ Club about an event they took part in with the MISE Project

“Where otters dare”, and article by Michael Viney in the Irish Times

Dr. Catherine O’Reilly, the MISE Project leader was featured in an interesting article called “Stools of the trade”, featured in the Irish Times

The MISE Project got a nice mention in Michael Viney’s wildlife column in the Irish Times

Seafield National School was shortlisted for an Eco-Unesco Young Environmentalist’s award for their project “Bioeye”, which they worked on in conjunction with the MISE project. The list of shortlisted projects can be found here

Read Ceri’s blog entry in the Welsh View: What do Welsh otters eat?

Small mammal event in the Tipperary Star , The Nationalist and Clonmel online. The event report was also published in Clonmel online

Roaringwater Bay Otter survey in West Cork Times

Read Ceri’s blog entry in the Welsh view: It’s all in the DNA