2 miles destroyed. Between this, the storms, algae blooms, climate change, massive overgrazing etc… it just feels a bit hopeless; and barely anyone cares about the environment in Ireland.
Probably started in the Leitrim lodge area, shocking amount of barbecues, grass fires, 'camp fires'. Add in 30+ mph winds and it's going to be a bad couple of days I think.
by Iwasapirateonce
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I think the Mourne Mountains just decided to do that. Every couple of years they just be on fire.
Wildfires can also be beneficial. Doomscrolling, not so much
Surely the helicopter(s) should be out?
It’s not destroyed, it will grow back fairly quickly.
The only reasons there is gorse there is because it burns. its part of the natural cycle.
My worry about being fires like this in the mournes is how likely there is a walker very near by or at the top of a peak
How is it ‘destroyed’ I hike Leitrim lodge area once a week, it’s pretty bare anyways, not like a massive wooded area burned down. Fire is a natural part of nature
What’s climate change got to do with it
I’m from the Mournes, and I’m so disgusted by the other comments saying “it’ll grow back” or “wildfires are beneficial”. In my near 30 years, there’s been more fires in the last couple of years than all the previous years put together, all leaving more scarring on the landscape than the last. We’re losing biodiversity and it’s terrible.
Fuck farmers
Wise up, the Mournes will be there long after humans are extinct
It’s annoying and it shouldn’t happen (it’s nearly always BBQs and cigs) but it grows back quick.
Farmers again. These are not accidental.
Wildfire sort of implies it happened without human interaction.
This is not ” a country” it’s a region ,the six counties.Laughably some describe this place as a “nation “.As in the norths soccer team competing within the nations league😁🙄😁🙄
The fire is unfortunate,but we live amongst pyromaniacs that have it bred into them to destroy the place with fire every July🙄
Basically it’s a shit hole,the northern six ,I certainly owe it no allegiance as a laughable ” country “🙄😁
It’s a region !,on the Island of Ireland 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪☘️
thats a protestant fire if ever I’ve seen one
This whole idea of ‘wildfire’ in Northern Ireland has been sold so well. What we have is semi natural habitats being intentionally burned by farms to create improved grazing conditions. The last small bastions we have that aren’t intensive agricultural lands are under assault every spring and summer..
I used to think we were dodging most of the effects of climate change. I guess not. It’s now in our backyard.
Fucksake lads
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It started just past Yellow water, a few friends and I were at the picnic area, when we noticed what we thought were some very low clouds though soon came to realize that wasn’t the case. We couldn’t get down the road towards Letrim Lodge for obvious reasons so I launch my drone.
We knew something was wrong when 4 Fire Engines came scootin past Yellow Water.
Sad to see people not respecting nature here. Northern Ireland is 12th worst country in the world for Biodiversity loss… sad to see. We need more protected wild areas and more people to actually give a shit and to stop ruining the place with silly things like fucking trolleys in rivers and setting the place on fire.
Can we stop calling them wildfires and call them assholefires instead? They’re not started naturally, they’re started by assholes, either deliberately to see the neenorr big trucks with flashing lights, or because some smick is throwing his feg butts at his arse.
The awful thing with gorse fires, is that the only way to stop them is by beating the fire out with a shovel, or a special tool that is basically a rubber sheet on the end of a long handle.
Combine that with digging trenches as firebreaks, it is hard physical work for the firefighters, who often are not provided with water for hours when out at these kinda calls.
The solution is to prosecute those responsible with jail time. To think that The Mournes has been talked about as a national park is laughable when you have arseholes running around doing this every year.
I’ve never known there to be some fires in the mournes, someone obviously doing it… but why, vandalism? pyromaniac? farmers? Someone just for shit * giggles? Arseholes whoever, need taken out to the car park and spoken to dickheads!!
The only solution is to take away all grazing rights. Farmers take land that was once communal common grazing and burn the fuck out of it and then magically fence and pen it for their own and then stick up big signs saying no hikers.
End grazing rights make all mountains public lands
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