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Do you buy Glenisk yogurt? If so, there’s a chance you’ve looked at the notice from Self Help Africa on the back. Self Help Africa have decided that, working with Glenisk yogurt, they are going to plant 100, 000 native trees here in Ireland, and for every tree planted here 10 will planted in Africa- […]

Hello everyone. Hope you are safe and well! Here is part two of My Special Trees. The Sycamore Trees On our little bit of land, we have two sycamore trees. One of them was a favourite tree since the moment I saw it. It was so wonderful to climb. Its branches were strong and flat, […]

If you live in Ireland, there is a likelihood you at least noticed the impact of storm Ellen, both on people and wildlife. For us in Galway, the impact was big.   We found out when, after a night of howling winds, we rushed to take some ill animals to the vet. The first hundred […]

We were contacted by an artist called Katie Holten. Katie lives in America, but she grew up in Ireland, and her latest project has been the Irish Tree Alphabet. Katie was inspired by Ireland’s ancient Ogham alphabet to create a new version. Each tree represents a letter in the alphabet. If you go to the […]

On the 12th of August, The Department of Agriculture announced their new native woodlands scheme, also supported by the Green Party. This aims to plant native, permanent woodlands on public land. An Irish Rail (Iarnród Éireann) site in Roscommon is already being considered as a starting point. The voluntary planting of native trees is becoming […]

Hello everybody, the last couple of months have been eventful in the virus sense but also quite boring for a lot of people! The lockdown has, however, caused a huge increase in wildlife across our part of Europe: basking sharks off the west coast of Ireland, orcas in Scottish harbours. A pheasant has even hatched […]