Ashley @gloverstweets Twitter profile

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7 months

just caught the end of an RTE radio piece where a lad put GPS trackers in his household recycling, proving it was going direct to Poolbeg incinerator, and not to recycling absolutely no one will be surprised at that story

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amazing pic. don’t know who took it. inside a violin

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6 years

Worth bookmarking a list of the 32 TDs that tried to block the Referendum. #Repealed

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3 years

I had been putting off launch until after lockdown ... but sunshine and neighbours mill pond was too good an opportunity 🛶 she floats

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11 months

setting up a new lobby organisation in Ireland, and you have all the letters of the alphabet to choose

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The IRA (Irish Rural Association) turning attention to NGOs who are apparently trying to drive farmers off the land as part of Eamonn Ryans One World agenda.

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3 years

Lot of burning in the Wicklow hills tonight There’s no plan to sort this shit, it’s almost socially acceptable. Job for the next generation

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3 years

unblurred copy of that cctv footage from Howth DART station ... hopefully someone recognises these lads

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3 years

#howth words fail me.

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2 years

building peat dams and seeding sphagnum

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2 years

Irish or Danish bacon … always read the label carefully as packaging design (particularly maps) can mislead 🐖

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2 years

hearing Dawn Meats have been granted planning permission by ABP it’s an 8km pipe for a Section 4 trade effluent discharge license from the meat plant into Boyne River

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2 years

Ceola from Wicklow Axe Throwers is the new World Axe Throwing Champion 🥇

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3 years

Live feed from Iceland volcano. Fagradalsfjall

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3 years

gives an insight into the arseholes that Garda are listening to at the checkpoints

Dubs life

@dubslife1

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#garda #Lockdown3

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1 year

Double chainlink fencing into hardcore, "Greenway", Co Meath Unclear how the local authorities are getting all these environmental assessments signed off Where they cross wildlife corridors... I'd be cutting out small critter sized crossing points in the wires

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1 year

Laois farmer fined €6,000 and convicted for wildlife crime

Laois farmer fined €6,000 and convicted for wildlife crime

A National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) officer told the court that by removing the vegetation and mature trees, the farmer had increased the size of his areas farmed to claim additional subsidy

www.farmersjournal.ie

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5 months

just a couple of grey beards looking at preserving native oak woods (that we don’t own or have permission to be in) with this site it’s gotta be guerrilla conservation, as you would never get landowner permission to repair deer fences, cull, remove invasives or plant 🌱acorns

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7 years

Bike thieves (Abbeyglen Apartments, Pottery Road, Cabinteely, Dublin 18). Last night. Always good to give these lads some online PR....

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3 years

@RobGMacfarlane I’ve recently built one, happy to advise you on restoration. Drop me a DM

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7 months

then an industry rep came on to say the industry is regulated so this is rare! statistically, there’s close to zero environmental inspections across water, air, noise or waste

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8 months

checking trailcam on a deer management site in Dublin Mountains great to see red squirrels and hares no martens yet, but my guess is they are there

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2 years

Men’s Team Winners. World Axe Throwing Championships 1st Germany 🇩🇪 2nd Sweden 🇸🇪 3rd Ireland 🇮🇪

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2 years

Plus initial landowner has now withdrawn consent, so the original planning can’t be actioned Dawn Meats would not have the access and now need a new location to enter the river Which would require a whole new application someone/everyone buy that landowner a pint

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3 years

did you know Wicklow bridges were all drilled out to take explosive charges during the war? if you take a look under one, you’ll see the holes this is Derrybawn Bridge

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2 years

Glenmacnass, Wicklow today

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3 years

Two day hike, and hammock camping Wicklow, you’re looking good

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8 months

if you nicked one of the Rewild Wicklow trailcams, please pop it back in place … no questions asked 🙏

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1 year

Photos from helicopter drops of materials at Barnacullian, Granamore and Carrigshouk in Wicklow hills NPWS/Rewild Wicklow peatland restoration project To volunteer for 2023 visit

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5 months

Irish Scots pines … the story behind Irish Scots pines is kinda amazing … it was thought they were extinct

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2 years

daily reminder that turf isn’t just an air pollution, public health, climate change and biodiversity issue it’s also a significant impact on Irish water quality

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2 years

most folk switch off when you mention Section 4 Trade Effluent Discharge Licenses but not Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan hits out at plans to discharge Dawn Meats plant wastewater into River Boyne

Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan had made a powerful video appealing to Meath County Council to step in and stop plans for the installation of a waste...

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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1 year

Windfarms on peat soils Orange on Peat / Yellow not on Peat Includes all Irish windfarms that are Connected and Energised Thanks to Neil for mapping

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7 months

@RightToKnow if anyone knows the GPS recycling tracker man (Dublin based), I’d be keen to chat I know there’s a related issue where domestic waste is going to Construction & Demolition Waste licenced facilities (they aren’t licenced for general waste)

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2 years

more upland bog restoration work this Saturday (heather spreading, grass seeding, lime/ fertiliser, fencing work and timber dams) to volunteer visit

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2 years

Rewild Wicklow website is now live If you want to volunteer, have land that’s suitable or want to follow our projects… check out

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7 months

via @righttoknow we can ask about prosecutions/ enforcement actions for operators that are dumping recycling but my guess is no one (apart from this one citizen scientist) is putting GPS trackers in recycling so there’s no enforcement actions

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6 months

Garda managed to keep his feet. Maybe saved his life. Hope he’s alright

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@murfogram

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O’Connell fucking bridge. The poor guard. Absolute scumbags #dublinriots

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1 year

meanwhile lads in Kerry literally putting digger in the river and selling gravel out of spawning beds no sanctions here, unless there’s dead fish @InlandFisherIE ⬇️

Environment Agency

@EnvAgency

1 year

Today, landowner John Price was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for the destruction of 1.5km of the protected River Lugg. Together with @NaturalEngland , we welcome this sentence and will continue to work hard to restore the health of our rivers. 📰:

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1 year

more ‘greenway’ wildlife fences, Navan to Wilkinstown

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2 years

Irish woman wins world axe throwing title in Canada

Sligo native Ceola McGowan has become the women's World Axe Throwing Champion in Canada overnight

www.rte.ie

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2 years

dam good day in the Wicklow hills, on the peat conservation project beavering away with NPWS needs a big conversation about funding this work at scale, and addressing the other end (mainly grazing/burning pressures) 🦫

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2 years

does anyone know if the regular rules on river bank protections (tree felling, vegetation removal etc) apply to modified waters like canals? was sent this pic, allegedly Inland Waterways. maybe local authority? or just private developer? Ballinamore

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4 years

spoken to a few people who work with juvenile offenders and no one has any idea why DPP did not charge for this attack. in other countries this would bring people on to the streets.

The Sunday Times Ireland

@ST__Ireland

4 years

The father of one of the three teenagers scarred in an acid attack in Waterford earlier this year is considering a High Court challenge against the decision not to prosecute two of his son’s attackers

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10 months

back up with NPWS and Rewild Wicklow, checking on progress at the first peatland restoration site one year on, and you definitely start to see impact

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1 year

about 20,000 trees unloaded for the schools programme at @NativeWoodTrust

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2 years

keep returning to this map for sure, there's multiple water pollution issues in Ireland but you could rewrite the entire River Basin Management Plan to just address nitrates in Cork

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2 years

I have recently been appointed as a Co-Director at Looking forward to working with @kenfoxe @gavinsblog @malachybrowne @FPLogueLaw and the rest of the Right to Know team

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4 months

tomorrow I’m off to Derrybawn to see a lad who wants to replant a big Sitka Spruce site with native woodland if you’ve ever looked into the lawns at Derrybawn House or walked up into National Park above … it’s perhaps the most challenging site in Wlicklow to grow trees

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1 year

snow on Lug maybe first snow in Wicklow this winter

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4 years

Sally Gap, Wicklow this morning @aaroadwatch

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4 years

I know @paddycosgrave has been banging on about transparency but the lack of basic public data on national PPE requirements/specs is shocking 😷

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4 years

I think if we’re going to do anything to conserve native Irish woodlands, that we should start with the river corridors. River of acorns. Wicklow

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2 years

Rewild Wicklow will be helping NPWS with a peatland restoration trial in the Wicklow Mountains National Park Email Danny at rewildwicklow @gmail .com to get involved

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1 year

My first salmon … 7yr ago today Not landed one since

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2 years

Comeragh Mountain SAC fires in Co Waterford yesterday were in fact four separate fires, suggesting a fair level of coordination for those involved. Looks like eastern fire didn’t take for whatever reason 🔥

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1 year

maybe avoid the Wicklow Gap 🌨️

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2 years

it’s the 8km distance that makes thid unique, I’ve never seen a section 4 that’s more than a stones throw from the effluent discharge pipe why is waste not stored, and forwarded for offsite remediation can see this one in High Court, as it’s so off the charts bonkers

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3 years

@SenatorMarkDaly @opwireland Mark, you don't want OPW going anywhere near your local rivers. A search on this website will give you an idea of the 'improvements' OPW can make. Some of their works will take a generation to remedy

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3 years

‘Wild’ campers return to Wicklow 🤬

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1 year

Coillte and contractor plead guilty to polluting Cork river

THE State-owned forestry company Coillte and its contractor, Tipperary-based Oliver Kelly Timber Harvesting Ltd, have both pleaded guilty to breaches of th...

www.independent.ie

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9 years

a reminder of what a broadband map of Ireland looks like http://t.co/EiZpgGq3yh

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2 years

In 2016, 4,900 acres were added to the Wicklow national park (at the Featherbeds in Dublin uplands, which added about 10% more area to the park portfolio) Have there ever been proposals for additional national parks? If so, where would they be located ?

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Did you know that with all the beautiful lush countryside in Ireland, there are only 6 national parks?! Here's to more national parks!! #30DayMapChallenge Day 3 Polygons Data: NPWS, Tool: QGIS

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1 year

hiked up to NPWS / Rewild Wicklow peatland conservation project this morning… looking good

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9 months

Ireland needs more wild native forests – not lifeless Sitka plantations – The Irish Times

Ireland needs more wild native forests – not lifeless Sitka plantations

We’re failing to meet our forestry targets. But to help maintain a functional biosphere, they must be wild native forest ecosystems

www.irishtimes.com

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1 year

NPWS Liffey Head bog rewetting project it’s close to road, and machine access is possible, compared to the sites we’ve been working on with Rewild Wicklow

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1 year

Quarry regulation in Ireland is woeful Local councils are buying construction products from companies not complying with EU rules

Local authorities warned over enabling quarries to flout regulations

National Building Control Office has told councils it is aware that some are buying construction products from companies not complying with EU rules

www.businesspost.ie

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3 years

gotta be a new golden age for pirates 🏴‍☠️

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1 year

lots of upland burning in Kerry over past 24hr you can see NASA fire location reporting here

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1 year

Whatever about the wildlife how the hell do the Kerry locals put up with that volume of thick smoke from this level of burning. Inside or outside of the breeding season this seems dangerous.

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3 years

heard an interesting response to the issue whereby employers can’t ask about vaccination status invite team for lunch to a restaurant where you know they always check digital Covid certs 💡

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3 years

reminder to anyone putting up bird boxes woodpeckers

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1 year

impact of deer exclosures, Glencree

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2 years

Data isn't yet available for all counties, but this one is concerning Coillte pre-harvesting inspections found just one single bird nesting site in Cork (sparrow hawk nest in Bantry) One possible nest location from 50,517 ha of Coillte forest?

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4 years

you won’t hear this from the HSE but owning a banjo really assists with social distancing

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1 year

European Commission criticises Ireland’s forestry policy

Concerns raised about impact of policy on peatland and birds

www.irishexaminer.com

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2 years

Coillte refusal to release GIS Mapping data on sites managed for nature conservation / biodiversity

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@gloverstweets

2 years

here’s the map of the planned pipe (just in case you think I’m making this shit up) it’s an abattoir waste pipe discharging into a river that 25,000 homes in East Meath and South Louth get their drinking water supply from

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1 year

photos of the assault have already been circulated online hopefully will lead to arrest for the attack on the farmer

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2 years

Trials of two turf-cutters collapses after State decides not to pursue prosecution

The judge outlined that he was instructed to enter a nolle prosequi in both cases

www.irishtimes.com

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1 year

59% of the Wicklow National Park is in commonage for sheep - 131km2 out of the 222km2 if the goal is habitat restoration, buying commonage might make more sense ? or buying out the Coillte plantations on peat soils that border the National Park ?

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1 year

more 'greenway' fencing you don't see these barriers on farms, they are all local authority projects via AIE, and searching tenders, it's possible to document most, if not all of this rapidly growing class of wildlife barriers but how to remove them? and prevent new builds?

Ecofact

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1 year

This type of fencing seems to be installed everywhere in Castletroy, Co Limerick, now - including areas adjoining the Lower River Shannon SAC. It blocks movements of wildlife (including Otters) and causes habitat fragmentation. It is along the Castletroy “greenway” also.

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great idea, but let’s take a moment to put in a management plan for the National Parks we already own ?

Eamon Ryan has not ruled out compulsory land purchase to increase national park sizes

Minister says there is 'a real opportunity' to reverse the damage that has been done to our environment over the last 50 years

www.irishexaminer.com

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Ecological tragedy in Clare heralds imminent water crisis in Ireland

Ballymacraven river may never recover from pollution that killed thousands of fish, an incident that highlights an even wider problem as the State’s water treatment infrastructure creaks under...

www.irishtimes.com

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1 year

great idea, I was thinking we could put similar on Irish rivers at the end of every Section 4 trade effluent discharge pipe, noting who owns the licence and which local authority officer signed it off. 🤔

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1 year

Many blue plaques have appeared this weekend by waterways across Newark and Sherwood reading: “Robert Jenrick MP voted against reducing the dumping of raw sewage in our rivers. Demand change now." I've found two already! Love it! #dirtywater

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2 years

DAFM forest road licence approvals are obviously licencing the actual road construction But … it’s also double drains into the nearest watercourse most criticism of state forestry is clearfell and replanting on inappropriate sites someone should document road licences

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2 years

Avoca mines visit… not sure what to say about this place It’s imposing, in some places like the surface of a toxic moon, in others nature is slowly re-establishing

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1 year

favourite Christmas 🎄 tree decoration is up

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5 months

huge amount of water coming down off the Wicklow hills today

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3 years

checking my trailcam after a few days in the woods it’s a small (ten acre) mixed woodland site behind my house, there’s between 10-15 sika hinds, two large badger setts, a woodpecker pair and the odd pinemartin

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Cork farm project achieves 'significant' improvement in river water quality

Programme focused on getting about 100 landowners to help stop run-off pollution into tributaries which primarily feed into the River Blackwater

www.irishexaminer.com

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4 years

we lost one of our own this week. the lockdown itself is a killer. RIP Bear.

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1 year

headed up the hills today to take another look at Sitka Spruce replanting on steep peat soils @ShaunaReports covered the issues well, but it’s such an issue in Wicklow that I think it needs ongoing attention

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current Govt plan is replanting upland, mono-culture sitka spruce and clearfell that’s what I’m seeing in Wicklow hills absolutely conflicting with Blue Dot / Waters of LIFE objectives peat soils, so additional impact is surface water quality am I missing something?

Eamon Ryan

@EamonRyan

1 year

Irish forestry will also have to change. We must move away from upland, mono-culture & clear-fell plantations to allowing trees re-seed naturally in ‘continuous cover’ forests and promote the new agroforestry options ⁦ @pippa_hackett ⁩ is introducing. ⁦ @IrishRainforest ⁩

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4 years

Big shout out to @Medtronic for this... Medtronic have about 4000 staff in Ireland so show of appreciation 👏

James Packard Love

@jamie_love

4 years

Medtronic's open license for ventilator.

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Ireland taken to European Court of Justice over failure to protect nature against influx of invasive species

Ireland taken to European Court of Justice over failure to protect nature against influx of...

Ireland is being taken to court over yet another failure in relation to nature and biodiversity protections.

www.independent.ie

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2 years

one to watch it’s early days on Irish solar farm planning permission.. but you would think putting panels on built infrastructure (buildings/carparks/motorways) is better than on farmland/peatland

Plan to develop solar farm on 277 acres in Kildare garners 15 planning appeals

Stud farm owners oppose proposed project near Naas, citing ‘negative impact on their livelihood’

www.irishtimes.com

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3 years

cc @IrishRainforest thinking about a canoe trip west to map and photograph Irish island woodlands I know in some lakes farmers put sheep on islands, but there must still be islands with undisturbed woods Like this one on Tawnyard

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1 year

so we won a thing 🥇 well done to everyone who’s been volunteering on the Rewild Wicklow woodland and peatland restoration days raising a glass to you here at @PowerscourtDist 🥃

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2 years

from the IWT response to the Forestry Plan … worth highlighting, as it’s obviously not highlighted in any announcements

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2 years

Peatland restoration hasn’t been a feature of climate change discussion. There’s just 205 people employed in peatland rehabilitation in the Midlands Is there scope to significantly increase bog rewetting, to reduce emissions?

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3 years

still waiting for #sneachta here in Wicklow will need a longer snow sofa bar this year @edvyn_jebb

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Some of Ireland's cleanest rivers and streams at risk from Coillte forestry

Environmental activists are concerned the State company’s cutting and replanting activity on peat is a ‘perfect storm for water quality impacts’.

www.thejournal.ie

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