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News Q Blog Sewer Overflows
Ongoing sewage dumping scandal
Not much has improved since a Belfast Telegraph article in 2023 reported NI Water’s fine [...]
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LVRP MAP Q Blog
Drumbeg in Lagan Valley Regional Park
Lagan Valley, within which LVRP is situated, was designated an Area of OutstandingNatural Beauty (AONB) [...]
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The Hummingbird Hawk-Moth Returns to Quarterlands
New video footage has captured another wonderful encounter with a hummingbird hawk-moth here at Quarterlands, [...]
Aug
Why Did “Lagan Valley National Landscape” Appear on Google Maps? pt 2
Part 2: DAERA Responds, and the Answer Raises More Questions We have now received DAERA’s [...]
Aug
Protecting Biodiversity
When Did We Stop Expecting Nature to Come First? Four years ago, a handful of [...]
Aug
Why Did “Lagan Valley National Landscape” Appear on Google Maps? pt 1
Part 1. In September 2024 Quarterlands Group noticed something curious on Google Maps. The familiar [...]
Aug
Quarterlands Group Summer Update:
Looking Back and Looking Ahead It has been a busy and significant year for the [...]
Jul
More Than a Name
Over the years the landscape around the Quarterlands site has changed, as all living landscapes [...]
Jun
National Trust Warning
Feels Very Familiar to Us Reading the recent Belfast Live coverage of the National Trust [...]
May
DAERA Consultation on Water Quality – A Critical Moment for the River Lagan
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has issued a consultation paper entitled [...]
May
Updated – Toolkit for Accidental Activists:
Toolkit for Accidental Activists: What We Wish We’d Known We never planned to become activists. [...]
Apr
What has changed
in the Quarterlands environmental assessment? Recent documents uploaded to the Planning Portal raise serious questions [...]
Apr