The floorboards in the house hadn’t been touched for more than 50 years, so when we finally lifted some at the start of this year it wasn’t surprising to uncover a collection of random items tucked ...

Researchers have issued a stark warning about the future of the Irish hare and the threat it faces from the European 'brown' hare, which has set up home in Mid-Ulster and West Tyrone. Biologists have ...

Sir, – Another hare-coursing season will soon begin. Politicians, as deaf to the pleas of campaigners as they’ve been to the cries of screaming hares, refuse to halt the cruelty of this “sport”. We ...

Irish hares are eighteen times more abundant in areas managed by the Irish Coursing Club than at similar sites in the wider countryside a recent study. Irish hares are eighteen times more abundant in ...

A charity has urged people using the Belfast Hills to “spare a thought” for Irish hares as the species continues to be under threat. The Belfast Hills Partnership says that increased visitors to the ...

The Ulster Wildlife Trust has been the lead partner for the Irish hare Species Action Plan since 2001 and we take this role very seriously. We can understand how people would therefore assume that we ...

The Irish hare is at risk of being driven into extinction within the coming decades unless firm action is taken to stop the invading European hares from breeding. Researchers from Queen’s University ...

There is no scientific data to support the claim that observed declines in Irish hare abundance have been associated with coursing activity (Write Back, June 16). A recent scientific study suggested ...

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