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‘Baunmore has changed significantly since peat extraction stopped in 2017’ said Dr Mark McCorry, Head of Ecology and Bog Rehabilitation at Bord na Móna, who recently visited the site with the Coillte Nature Team. ‘Areas that were formerly harvested are now quickly colonising with bog cotton, sedges and other species, and the re-wetting has been &hellip
Read: Coillte Nature 2021 Update. Don’t have time? Watch: our stunning End of Year Video A message from Ciarán Fallon, Director of Coillte Nature For me 2021 was the year we began to seriously engage with the changes we need to make in the coming years to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss. It was &hellip
Midland Native Woodland native tree and shrub trials at Baunmore, Co. Kilkenny Native tree and shrub trials This week, the Coillte Nature team looked at how our Midlands Native Woodland tree trials are doing, having recently submitted our Form 1 Application and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the Midlands Native Woodlands project to the &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