Ireland’s National Biodiversity week has a list of activities taking place, while the International Day for Biological Diversity, and World Bee Day also coincide with this week.
The HSE Sustainable Infrastructure office has green space projects on 15 pilot sites to maximise health & wellbeing benefits for patients and staff, and improve biodiversity.
The National Biodiversity Data Centre has a number of campaigns:
- Sign up as a supporter of the All Ireland Pollinator Plan, which can include healthcare facilities.
- ‘No mow May’, a campaign run across May to help pollinators.
- A campaign for World Bee Day, 20th May.
The National Biodiversity Data Centre has practical guides and resources including the following which would be applicable to healthcare facilities:
- Business actions and local community actions to help pollinators and signage
- Top ten ways to help pollinators
- A guide on pollinator friendly grass cutting
- How to Guide – creating meadows in local communities and gardens – how to transform grassy areas into semi-natural grassland
Irish healthcare facilities are taking action to promote biodiversity, along with green spaces for physical and mental wellbeing. Some examples are as follows:
- Mayo University Hospital is drawing up a biodiversity plan for their campus.
- Sligo University Hospital herb garden for renal patients