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Friday October 23rd 2020 Ireland has been placed into Level 5 of the Plan for Living with COVID19. In accordance with this advice and the restrictions in place for Level 5, Coillte’s forests and forest parks will remain open but only to those who live within 5km of the forests they are visiting. All visitors &hellip
If you’ve been following the Dublin Mountains Makeover, you may have already visited our dedicated project page, watched our video introducing the project, read our progress updates on the blog, checked out our Beginner’s Guides to the two main forestry techniques we’re using (CCF and R&R) and noticed some of the signage we’ve been installing &hellip
In some parts of the Dublin Mountain forests, we’re changing the tree species by removing timber forests and replanting them with native woodlands – a process we call ‘R&R’. In this blog, we explain what R&R is, how it works and what the benefits will be. Native broadleaves are rare in the Dublin Mountains The &hellip
Coillte Nature is restoring an ancient alluvial woodland in Co. Sligo by removing the invasive species that are slowly choking it. We’ve made a short video to show you how we’re tackling the problem and what the benefits will be, and explain it all in greater detail in the blog below.
They covered 80% of our island following the last Ice Age, but Ireland’s primeval ancient forests had all but disappeared by the foundation of the State. How did it happen? In this guest blog, Richard Nairn, ecologist and author of Wildwoods, takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the history of our woodlands – from &hellip
This Annual celebration as part of the European Week of Sport encourages people to get out walking to benefit their physical and mental health and wellbeing Research shows that outdoor walking has been important for wellbeing during the COVID19 pandemic National Walking Day aims to inspire people to get out and walk in &hellip