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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
Karen Woods, Operations Manager with Coillte Nature, offers a personal reflection on progress made this year on the Dublin Mountains Makeover For me, the Dublin Mountains Makeover is part of a really exciting journey that started 12 years ago when I became the first Recreation Manager with the Dublin Mountains Partnership (DMP). Our early work &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