Finally some Government spending that everyone can support.
This looks like an amazing project – 60k native trees being planted!
More of this please. Lots more of this.
It’s gorgeous up there and feels like a little bit of a ‘hidden gem’ within the county – even our lazy dog loves the walk up to Bohernabreena Reservoir. Great if there’s more to be done for biodiversity further upstream and it’s actually able to move forward.
Sorely needed at this stage. I wildcamp as a hobby and it’s genuinely a hard pill to swallow seeing just how damaged our mountains have become.
Djouce used to be a bueatful spot. Went up for a night last week and was horrified just how barren it’d become. Due to top soil regression it’s literally a bare rock at this stage with a couple of patches of dead, shite looking gorse bush left. It’s actually gotten so bad trying find a spot to get your tent pegs into the ground is near impossible! Sugarloaf isn’t much better either.
Good news. Please build some proper hiking paths so people can enjoy (and appreciate) the new landscape.
Good now do the “Wild Atlantic Way” and actually make it wild
They were also making the point that this is the headwaters of the Dodder, and will probably save a fortune on flood prevention measures down in Dublin as a result.
Essentially it will add a massive sponge effect to the watershed and slow down rainfall making its way downstream.
More of this please !
This is brilliant news. Finally the Green Party doing something actually Green.
Do this in Cooley-Mourne mountains as well, could be good joint project with Northern Ireland.
Carlingford lough’s mountains are polluted with sikta forestry and barley used fields, a shame for one of the most beautiful parts of the country.
For anyone outside the ecology / biodiversity circles, Malcolm Noonan of the Greens has been doing a brilliant job of revamping and funding the National Parks and Wildlife Service, and recruiting Biodiversity Officers for almost all local authorities.
I had a quiet chat with him last year, and was really impressed. He’s a genuine person, and his heart is in the right place – everything you’d want from a politician. Fingers crossed the people of Kilkenny vote him in again at the next general election.
Dublin boggers
Deer be having themselves a feast. Massive cull needed.
I reckon houses with gardens should get some form of energy subsidy or reduction in tax for planting appropriate native trees in their garden. Obviously it wouldn’t be stupidly high but just as an incentive to make it worth it.
And by that I mean even one tree – may only amount to €2 a month, but still would be worth it.
(I have no idea of the location of this project, I just planted that blue square somewhere in the vicinity)
This is a great idea and we need much, much more of it asap. Hopefully we’ll soon have the return of the beautiful Atlantic rainforest that used to cover much of Ireland.
Living in Scotland, I love how great it is for hiking and visiting nature spots, especially with the ‘[right to roam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam?wprov=sfla1)’ laws here, and that’s something I’d love to see Ireland implement too.
Also would be great to see a proper, long-term effort to create more national parks, which only cover 0.9% of Ireland currently.
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Great to hear
Finally some Government spending that everyone can support.
This looks like an amazing project – 60k native trees being planted!
More of this please. Lots more of this.
It’s gorgeous up there and feels like a little bit of a ‘hidden gem’ within the county – even our lazy dog loves the walk up to Bohernabreena Reservoir. Great if there’s more to be done for biodiversity further upstream and it’s actually able to move forward.
Sorely needed at this stage. I wildcamp as a hobby and it’s genuinely a hard pill to swallow seeing just how damaged our mountains have become.
Djouce used to be a bueatful spot. Went up for a night last week and was horrified just how barren it’d become. Due to top soil regression it’s literally a bare rock at this stage with a couple of patches of dead, shite looking gorse bush left. It’s actually gotten so bad trying find a spot to get your tent pegs into the ground is near impossible! Sugarloaf isn’t much better either.
Good news. Please build some proper hiking paths so people can enjoy (and appreciate) the new landscape.
Good now do the “Wild Atlantic Way” and actually make it wild
They were also making the point that this is the headwaters of the Dodder, and will probably save a fortune on flood prevention measures down in Dublin as a result.
Essentially it will add a massive sponge effect to the watershed and slow down rainfall making its way downstream.
More of this please !
This is brilliant news. Finally the Green Party doing something actually Green.
Do this in Cooley-Mourne mountains as well, could be good joint project with Northern Ireland.
Carlingford lough’s mountains are polluted with sikta forestry and barley used fields, a shame for one of the most beautiful parts of the country.
Up with this sort of thing!
This is the 5,000 acres the government were forced to buy out of Nama some years ago. Great to see it being put to positive use for all and not just the local sheep farmers.
[Nama landbank](https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/nama-wont-sell-mountain-land-to-state-for-less-than-its-25m-value/34934072.html)
Brilliant project, and a great spot for it.
For anyone outside the ecology / biodiversity circles, Malcolm Noonan of the Greens has been doing a brilliant job of revamping and funding the National Parks and Wildlife Service, and recruiting Biodiversity Officers for almost all local authorities.
I had a quiet chat with him last year, and was really impressed. He’s a genuine person, and his heart is in the right place – everything you’d want from a politician. Fingers crossed the people of Kilkenny vote him in again at the next general election.
Dublin boggers
Deer be having themselves a feast. Massive cull needed.
I reckon houses with gardens should get some form of energy subsidy or reduction in tax for planting appropriate native trees in their garden. Obviously it wouldn’t be stupidly high but just as an incentive to make it worth it.
And by that I mean even one tree – may only amount to €2 a month, but still would be worth it.
If anyone else has no real idea what 2,000 hectares is, it’s about this: https://i.ibb.co/b2DcBzz/map.png
(I have no idea of the location of this project, I just planted that blue square somewhere in the vicinity)
This is a great idea and we need much, much more of it asap. Hopefully we’ll soon have the return of the beautiful Atlantic rainforest that used to cover much of Ireland.
Living in Scotland, I love how great it is for hiking and visiting nature spots, especially with the ‘[right to roam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam?wprov=sfla1)’ laws here, and that’s something I’d love to see Ireland implement too.
Also would be great to see a proper, long-term effort to create more national parks, which only cover 0.9% of Ireland currently.
