21st February 2021.  Pippa Hackett Minister of State for Biodiversity and Land Use at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine officially “Turned the Sod” and planted the first tree to mark the development of the 105 acre Native Woodland Park, Sligo.  This site is being 100% funded by the Department of Agriculture Food &hellip

You Better Be-Leaf It Coillte and the Environmental Education Unit of An Taisce Announce the Delivery of Six Outdoor Based Forest Classrooms Tuesday, 1st February 2022 Coillte and the Environmental Education Unit (EEU) of An Taisce are delighted to announce the delivery of six new An Choill Bheags (little woodlands) in primary and secondary schools across &hellip

The TCPID, which sits within the School of Education at Trinity College Dublin, aims to promote the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in education and society. The core mission of the TCPID is to address the significant educational and societal barriers experienced by people with intellectual disabilities through the provision of an innovative high-quality &hellip

Read:  Coillte Nature 2021 Update.  Don’t have time? Watch: our stunning End of Year Video A message from Ciarán Fallon, Director of Coillte Nature For me 2021 was the year we began to seriously engage with the changes we need to make in the coming years to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss. It was &hellip

Trinity, UCD and Coillte team up to examine multiple benefits of forests and enhance sustainable management of woodlands Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, has launched the FOR-ES research project, which will look to co-develop tools for sustainable forestry management decision-making. FOR-ES is led by Trinity College Dublin, in collaboration with UCD &hellip

Almost half the population is aware the previously endangered red squirrel has made a comeback in the past two decades 4 in 5 adults don’t know woodpeckers have been living in Irish forests for over a decade   18 October, 2021 A Coillte commissioned RED C poll* reveals that 87% of Irish adults don’t know &hellip