An exciting opportunity presents to work with Coillte Nature, a team dedicated to creating, restoring, regenerating and rehabilitating biodiversity across Ireland. We are currently looking to recruit a new Communications and Engagement Manager. To find out more information about this role click here.

Work begins on a R&R (Remove and Replant with Native Woodland) site in Ticknock, as part of the second year of operations of the Dublin Mountains Makeover. Work will begin on Tuesday 12th January and will involve clearfelling 2.5ha of mature Sitka spruce and Corsican pine. It will last for approximately 3 weeks.  The trails &hellip

Richard Nairn, author of a new book Wildwoods, examines the current state of Ireland’s native woodlands and their benefits By the start of the twentieth century, only about one per cent of Ireland had any of the original woodland cover remaining. With steady planting over the last 120 years, the total forest cover has reached &hellip

Coillte Nature’s ecologist, Dr Declan Little, takes us through the work undertaken in 2020 to restore Hazelwood’s alluvial woodlands  When I heard that Coillte had identified Hazelwood’s alluvial forest as a priority for restoration at the National Biodiversity Conference in 2019, I was immediately struck by the merit of selecting this woodland. Alluvial native woodlands &hellip

Dr Declan Little, Coillte Nature’s ecologist, gives an update on the Midlands Native Woodland project. The prospect of leading on this project was very exciting and also somewhat daunting. Having visited the cutaway raised bogs on numerous occasions over the last 25 years or so armed me with the knowledge that native woodland is appropriate &hellip

Watch our end of year video Read our End of Year 2020 Report Director, Dr Ciarán Fallon, looks back on Coillte Nature’s first year of operations and presents a short video on the key highlights. When the Coillte Nature team gathered for the first time back in January in Coillte’s headquarters in Co. Wicklow, we &hellip