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Biodiversity Town Day - an annual event

"Monaghan Tidy Towns has had a strong focus on promoting local biodiversity. We lknow how fortunate we are in Monaghan town to have an urban area so rich in biodiversity with several waterways including rivers, lakes and a canal, all within the town boundary. Interest and awareness is growing in the importance of biodiversity and climate friendly actions and TidyTowns across the country is increasingly a grassroots environmental movement. We hope our annual event will spread the word further and encourage more people to get involved, even in a small way.

Biodiversity Town Day 2022 

Biodiversity Town Day  2022 is being organised for Wednesday 10th August and will be based at the Green Space at the Courthouse in Church Square and at Peters Lake. Special guest, Eanna Ni Lamhna. Details to follow 

Events for 2020  and 2021 cancelled die to restrictions

Biodiversity Town Day 2019 
All about the kids! 

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Our second Biodiversity Town Day in 2019 was focussed on children and was based on the new green space at the courthouse in the cente of town. Workshops and mural painting were organised and a great crowd showed up to take part. 
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Biodiversity Town Day 2018

The first  “Biodiversity Day”  to promote the idea of Monaghan as the nation’s first “Biodiversity Town” based at the allotments in Killygoan and featuring Eanna Ni Lamhna and local ecologist Billy Flynn with members of Monaghan Tidy Towns committee was held to promote the existing biodiversity of the town environs and provide information on how we can all play a part in both preserving and enhancing it.
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Biodiversity Town Day 2018 
​Press Release: Tidy Towns celebrates biodiversity in signature event.
A “Biodiversity Day”  to further promote the idea of Monaghan as the nation’s first “Biodiversity Town” based at the allotments in Killygoan and featuring Eanna Ni Lamhna and local ecologist Billy Flynn with members of Monaghan Tidy Towns committee was held to promote the existing biodiversity of the town environs and provide information on how we can all play a part in both preserving and enhancing it.
"Monaghan Tidy Towns has had a strong focus on promoting local biodiversity for a number of years now and we are always looking for ways to promote the concept to the wider public. We learned early on how fortunate we are in Monaghan town to have an urban area so rich in biodiversity with several waterways including rivers, lakes and the canal, all within the town boundary. Interest and awareness is growing in the importance of biodiversity and climate friendly actions and TidyTowns across the country is increasingly a grassroots environmental movement. We hope this event will spread the word further and encourage more people to get involved, even in a small way.”
“Monaghan allotments have been developed in a very biodiversity friendly way with plenty of space for wildlife, orchards, new native hedgerows and pollinator friendly planting. Rainwater harvesting and other sustainable projects are also on show. We encourage everyone to come along for an hour or two.