The video  discusses the National Biodiversity Data Centre's efforts to assess Ireland's biodiversity.

The Irish EPA has just published the first biannual update of its Biodiversity Action Plan, to mark International Day for Biological Diversity on Tuesday 22nd May 2012.  This Biodiversity Action Plan sets out the EPA’s progress in the implementation of its role in protecting biodiversity and covers a range of activities in the following areas: monitoring; research; assessment and reporting; environmental regulation; climate change and communications.