Damage and clean up cost of fires €1.3M in 2020 Almost all forest fires are man made   The Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine has issued a Status Yellow forest fire warning nationwide from March 1 until September 1 – the traditional fire outbreak season in Ireland. With warmer and dryer Spring weather, &hellip

70% of Irish adults say forests are more important during Covid – providing a mental and physical wellness boost 3/4 of Irish adults have pleasant childhood memories of visiting their local forest with family or friends and picnicking   22 March, 2021: A Coillte commissioned RED C survey* to celebrate National Tree Week, March 21 &hellip

2.2 million visits to Coillte’s most popular local forests since March, 2020 Top ten forest locations include: Dublin, Monaghan, Kildare, Wexford… Date: 16 February, 2021   Coillte reveals visitor numbers to some of its most popular recreational forests have doubled to tripled since lockdown began last year, depending on location. Overall, visitor numbers to the &hellip

  Friday December 4th 2020 Coillte Gift Native Trees to ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Award Winners for 2020 Coillte are delighted to partner with ECO-UNESCO for this year’s Young Environmentalist Awards – gifting over 100 native saplings to this year’s winners. ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards (YEA) is an all-Ireland environmental awards programme that recognises and rewards young &hellip

  Monday May 10th 2021 Coillte’s forests and forest parks remain open, as the country moves into less stringent national Covid-19 restrictions. We ask all visitors must adhere to HSE and Government guidelines, including social distancing measures when visiting our forests. As we’ve all seen during COVID19, there are substantial health and wellbeing benefits from &hellip

Friday, 13 November 2020 Guests of Leitrim County Council and Coillte gathered online last night to formally launch the Glenfarne Wood Options Report. The report provides a suite of development options that could be undertaken to enhance Coillte’s Glenfarne Wood for local and regional recreation and attracting tourism visitors. These options have been developed after &hellip