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

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