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It is a new year and a new decade for the trees of Ireland. We hope we can plant, protect and promote many more in the decade to come, so they can grow and thrive along side us. We hope everyone reading this has a very Happy New Year and continues to support Ireland’s trees. […]

My brother Jeevan and I have recently been helping to teach school children about the importance of hedgerow trees to wildlife, and in particular the humble yet crucial and fascinating Hawthorn tree… After reading a book by Jenny Ogden, explaining how to carry out wildlife interviews with animals – played by members of a group […]

Pádraic Fogarty is an ecologist, environmental campaigner, and author. (An ecologist is a person who studies how animals and plants relate to each other, their environment and the rest of nature.) His book ‘Whittled Away – Ireland’s Vanishing Nature’ was published in 2017. He is very passionate about helping Ireland’s trees and was kind enough […]

I recently had the privilege of meeting Sean O’Farrell, organic farmer, on his farm, Cloncannon Biofarm, in the shadows of the Devil’s Bit mountains in Co. Tipperary. Cloncannon is 60 acres of land with cows, pigs, donkeys geese and chickens and Sean uses no artificial fertilisers, herbicides or pesticides. He manages his farm hedgerows for […]

When we sent our Open letter to our local councillors and to the Oireachtas earlier this year, two of the responses we received were from Eamon Ryan (leader of the Green Party) and Pauline O’Reilly, Green Party County Councillor for Galway City. We were then invited to a stakeholders meeting this summer, which they both […]

Recently my family and I went to a bat conservation event in the grounds of Birr Castle, Co. Offaly. My brother and myself, our friend Jane and others, arrived at the octagonal pavilion near the lake. We sat down and waited for the talk to begin. We already knew, because we had been on a […]