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Ecology students clear litter from National Park

TEAM: Students and teaching staff from ETB are picking litter from the National Park
By Sean Moriarty
Students from the Educational Training Board’s Ecology course are cleaning the National Park bit by bit.
On Wednesday this week the group of students conducted a litter pick at Muckross House and Gardens. On Tuesday, (tomorrow), the group will move to Knockreer Demesne for another litter pick.
The students are all enrolled in the ETB’s first Ecology course which started in September 2021 and will continue until June this year.
“The aim is to make the area safer and more hospitable for the animals living there and to restore and improve habitats and biodiversity,” said course leader Ed Carty. “Every discarded item that is removed from the environment will be recycled. That means there is one less item for birds and animals to swallow.”
Tuesday’s Litter Pick will take place between 10am and 3pm.