Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 2 June 2022
222. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the last independent survey using objective research methods was carried out on the population of wild hares in Ireland. [28604/22]
View answerThe most recent national Hare survey took place from November 2018 to February 2019. It was commissioned by the National Parks & Wildlife Service and involved the extensive deployment of trail cameras providing the data equivalent of 106,026 survey hours.
The national population was estimated at 223,000 (111,000–449,000) individual Hares during 2018/19.
The full report of the 2018/2019 survey can be downloaded here: www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/publications/pdf/IWM113.pdf.
