Record 22 AIE 001 2025
Hen Harrier
HEN HARRIER PROJECT Final Report
OCEI decision overturning Coillte refusal of access to records related to CN92945
AIE – Metadata for the Hen Harrier datasets held electronically/digitally by the NPWS
AIE 114 2024
- Metadata for the Hen Harrier datasets held electronically/digitally by the NPWS (i.e Birds Unit and Scientific and Spatial Data Unit, and metadata being a set of data that describes and gives information about other data)
- Date of acquisition/receipt of the above datasets by NPWS from third parties, if received from third parties
- Date that NPWS provided such datasets to the Forest Service, if they were provided to the Forest Service

A guidance document on the methodologies of Systematic Predator Management for the conservation of Hen Harriers in the Slieve Bloom Mountains
AIE Request: Unredacted copy of AA documentation for CN89277 (Hen Harrier information)
Cases: OCE-145857-Y1Y0R1 and OCE-147943-Q3C1L7
Appropriate Assessment (AA) is an assessment of the potential adverse effects of a plan or project (in combination with other plans or projects) on Special Areas of Conservation and SPAs.
DAFM refusing access to the information stating that the information is redacted “for the safety of the Hen Harrier population” and “[i]n essence an individual may decide to eradicate the Hen Harriers in the area to lessen the conditions on their licence”


Appropriate Assessment Determination (AAD) documents associated with nine (9) individual felling licences granted to Coillte at new Hen Harrier nesting sites
Whether DAFM complied with its obligations under article 7(3) of the AIE Regulations
A joint NGO response to NPWS (2021) – Conservation Objectives Supporting Document: Breeding Hen Harrier, Circulation Draft
This is a joint response to the ‘NPWS (2021). Conservation Objectives Supporting Document: Breeding Hen Harrier. Circulation Draft’ on behalf of the environmental NGO representatives on the Hen Harrier Threat Response Plan Consultative Committee; namely An Taisce, BirdWatch Ireland, the Environmental Pillar and the Irish Raptor Study Group.














