Ours to Protect is back for a second year! Ours to Protect is a collaboration between Radio Kerry and the Independent Broadcasters of Ireland aiming to champion climate action, and inform and educate audiences all over Kerry about how they can make a difference. Programmes will air every second Thursday morning from May 2025 until the end of October.
Ours to Protect is brought to you by Radio Kerry, the IBI and funded by Coimisiún na Meán with the Television Licence Fee. For more information check out www.ourstoprotect.ie. Find your ecological footprint at footprintcalculator.org
This year, Ours to Protect is focusing on youth voices. We will be visiting schools and community groups from around the county, answering their environmental concerns and seeing the work that they are doing to help the environment.
This week we visited the fifth-class students of Scoil Realta na Maidine in Listowel, who have been carrying our extensive biodiversity work around their school over the last three years. We discuss the importance of growing native plants, trees, and vegetables and why “no mow zones” are key in ensuring our native wildlife thrives. We also speak to Alan Balfe, Wildlife and Education Coordinator at Tralee Bay Wetlands, who will be further explaining the importance of projects like the one in Scoil Realta na Maidine.
Special thanks to the students involved with the programme:
Ms Michelle Purtill, fifth class teacher
Paulo Celis Filho
Oskar Swierzowski
Lysandre Pouly
Ethan Jacob
Darren O’Connor
Jamie Barry
Tyler Enright
Robbie McCool
Jamie Doyle
Ciaran Dunlea
Daragh O’Callaghan
Scott McDonnell
Charlie O’Brien
Naoise De Róiste
Josh Moran
Antoni Sosnowski
Culainn Doyle
Jeso Jomon
Darragh Kelly
Killian Heaphy Brosnan
Sean Lynch
