Tell us about what’s happening at Ardee bog, and why you are campaigning to stop it.
Ardee Bog, in Ireland’s County Louth, is threatened by an absurd infrastructure project. If a proposed road, the N52 Ardee Bypass, is allowed to proceed in its current form it will cut through Ardee Bog and its surrounding buffer zone habitat, violating many local, regional, and European directives. The damage this would cause is inconceivable. An Environmental Impact Assessment was never carried out. The “planners” drew a line on a map, connecting two existing roads by slicing through the bog. …
A Road Can be Relocated but Ardee Bog Cannot.¹
Ardee Bog is Ireland’s most easterly Raised Bog and a site of National Ecological Importance. It is now threatened with destruction by the proposed N52 Ardee bypass. If Ireland is serious about being a climate leader we need to stop this project.
In 1990 and 1998 the Irish Peatland Conservation Council (IPCC) surveyed the Bog and identified a core area for conservation surrounded by a buffer zone of supporting habitat. …
Katie Holten
Artist | Environmental Activist | Author of the book About Trees | Tree Alphabet | katieholten.com | @katieholten
