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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
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
Love This Place, Leave No Trace — Government of Ireland in partnership with Leave No Trace Ireland call for the public to care for our countryside, follow the Leave No Trace principles and protect and preserve our land Discarded items left behind in the forest A new Government of Ireland campaign has been launched &hellip
Friday July 24th 2020: Coillte has warmly welcomed the announcement today (Friday) by Agriculture Minister, Dara Calleary, and Minister for Land Use & Biodiversity, Senator Pippa Hackett, that funding is to be provided for the Wild Atlantic Bog Woodland Project as part of the Government’s July Stimulus program. The project will see &hellip
Last month, we started the first of our CCF (Continuous Cover Forestry) operations in the Dublin Mountains by thinning an area of forest in Ballyedmonduff. Now, we’re undertaking our first R&R (Remove and Replant with native woodland) in Ticknock. The works begin on Monday 13th July and will involve clearfelling two small areas of forest: &hellip
UPDATED: 26.6.2020 If you’re visiting Ballyedmonduff forest over the next few weeks, look out for Phase 1 of our forest transformation. Works are beginning on the Dublin Mountains Makeover – a forest transformation project that’s putting people and nature first in the nine most popular Dublin Mountains forests. What can I expect to see? From &hellip