Students from a North Kerry school have been taking their climate education out of the classroom and into the local environment.
St Joseph’s Secondary School in Ballybunion took part in a community Bio Blitz along the Glen Road, organised by local sustainability facilitator Billy Jo O’Connor in partnership with Ballybunion Tidy Towns.
Working in small groups, students surveyed the roadside for plants and wildlife, documenting biodiversity many said they had never noticed before.
Their findings were then uploaded to Ireland’s National Biodiversity Data Network, contributing valuable citizen science data for conservation and biodiversity monitoring.
The event marks the culmination of the school’s participation in the Climate Literacy Programme run by Education for Sustainability, which has now reached nearly one thousand schools across fourteen counties.
