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Tina Claffey Photography @tinaclaffey.bsky.social · 3d

A shaft of sunlight on the woodland floor at Lough Boora Discovery Park illuminated this beautiful creature, the Pink barred Sallow moth. What a beauty @peatlandecr.bsky.social @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @charleenhurtubise.bsky.social

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cianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 4d

Coill seanna gharráin inniu. Áit fíor speisialta @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social @rewildingire.bsky.social

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 6d

This is lovely

"Early Irish literature is among the oldest vernacular literature in western Europe. As a spoken language, Irish predates English by a millennium. Its early writing system, Ogham, written vertically as a series of lines and strokes, has an alphabet based on trees."

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 6d

A tragic loss. Manchán has helped us define a different kind of relationship with nature based on our language and traditions. RIP.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 6d

The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed

Broadcaster and scríbhneoir Manchán Magan dies aged 55

The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed.

www.rte.ie

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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 6d

"We are in nature, and then we are humans in nature connected" Manchán Mangan - may he rest in nature - sad to part with both Jane Goodall and Manchán (far too young) this week - both powerful voices for our human relationship to nature and the environment www.rte.ie/news/2025/10...

Broadcaster and scríbhneoir Manchán Magan dies aged 55

The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed.

www.rte.ie

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 7d

The other day, I posted about the bumper crop of acorns this year.

Whatever's going on, it's the very same under the wild crab apple trees, with the woodland floor just covered in fallen fruit.

Happy days for all the animal inhabitants of the rainforest!

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 7d

Taxpayers will - as usual - pick up the tab when this beetle arrives. But instead of creating a resilient forestry sector, the government is paying the industry to double down on Sitka spruce monocultures.

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Is Ireland ready for spruce bark beetles? An invasion is ‘only a matter of time’

Eight-toothed insect, which has killed millions of trees across Europe, has made landfall in England and could soon be in Ireland

www.irishtimes.com

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Environmental Pillar @envpillar.bsky.social · 9d

Ireland’s nature is in a “very poor” state, with the country’s economic growth achieved at the expense of the environment, according to the EU’s State of Europe’s Environment report. We’re running out of wake-up calls! www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Ireland’s natural environment in ‘very poor’ condition, EU analysis finds

European Environment Report - news (analysis piece to follow) Embargoed to Sunday night 11pm

www.irishtimes.com

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 9d

Who’s responsible for probably the greatest environmental disaster this century in Ireland? Nobody! What caused it? Nothing! What are we going to learn from it…? Just take a guess…

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Cork fish kill: No culprit for the worst environmental disaster in Ireland this century

A multi-agency investigation failed to find the source of, or even identify, the toxins that killed nearly 40,000 fish in the Blackwater River recently

www.irishexaminer.com

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BSBI Ireland @bsbiireland.bsky.social · 10d

It's always a delight to see violets coming out for an autumn encore.
Common dog-violet (Viola riviniana) looking sweet in Dooney Rock woods, next to beautiful #LoughGill in #Co.Sligo.
#wildflowerhour #springflowers @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 11d

Obie, the idiot dog, managed to surprise a lizard on our afternoon walk. Irish lizards shed their tails when surprised to distract predators as they make their escape... It will grow a new one but it does take a while... In the meantime, here's a wiggly lizard tail... #IrishFauna #Lizards

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 13d

If it's not poisoned/shot eagles or killing life in rivers it's just plain bulldozing of important habitats.

What they all have in common is the ease with which perpetrators escape meaningful punishment... if they're caught in the first place.

www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

Farmer fined for destruction of rare limestone habitat

A Co Galway farmer has been ordered to pay over €9,300 in penalties for the destruction of more than four hectares of "an extremely rare and unique" limestone pavement habitat in a Special Area of Con...

www.rte.ie

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 14d

When a native rainforest is overgrazed, leaving only mosses, not only does it stop the trees from regenerating and strip out the diverse flora, it prepares the ground for invasive plants like rhodo to seed in by the million.

The rhodo is largely just a *byproduct* of the core problem: overgrazing.

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scohaboybog.bsky.social @scohaboybog.bsky.social · 15d

Wet woodland reflections….
@npwsireland.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social

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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 15d

- Science-based herd monitoring
- Science-based, sustainable cull plan
- Vension goes into the food chain
- Public safety a priority, hiring very experienced vets and hunters (not snipers, the headline is misleading)

A good example of urban wildlife management 🦌

www.thejournal.ie/opw-has-paid...

OPW has paid snipers €17,000 to kill 118 deer in Phoenix Park since last year - including fawns

Four culls took place at the park last year, resulting in 93 wild deer being fatally shot.

www.thejournal.ie

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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 15d

To be fair, use of the word "stalkers" probably has different connotations in thay particular park. "Snipers" is much more headline grabbing !

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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 15d

Awesome - that'll take 20 years and 50 million quid !

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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 15d

www.thejournal.ie/state-purcha...

State purchases almost 100 acres of 'high nature value' land in Clonakilty

The site will be managed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 15d

A Co Galway farmer has been ordered to pay a paltry €9,300 in penalties for the destruction of more than 4ha of limestone pavement in a Special Area of Conservation.
How is the State going to ensure these habitats are replaced & what will it cost?
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

Farmer fined for destruction of rare limestone habitat

A Co Galway farmer has been ordered to pay over €9,300 in penalties for the destruction of more than four hectares of "an extremely rare and unique" limestone pavement habitat in a Special Area of Con...

www.rte.ie

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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 15d

No mention of restoring the land. So fine equals about 1k per acre - well worth it and an incentive to everyone else to follow suit.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 18d

10 years ago, there was only a single 'leathceann' (windswept) birch tree in the foreground.

Now, there's a full-on exploding diverse native rainforest, none of which was planted. All it took was fencing out sheep.

Let's rewild the world 🌏

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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 18d

Leathceann is one of those amazing Irish words- just perfect!

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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 19d

This went completely under my radar. A rewilded Glen of the Downs Golf Course that creates an unexpected corridor between the GOTDs, Kindlestown Wood and the Little Sugar Loaf 🤯
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

The couple who bought a Wicklow golf course and turned it into a native woodland

The former Glen of the Downs Golf Course greens are now covered in 80,000 native trees, planted by Anke and John Moran

www.irishtimes.com

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 19d

Epiphytic goldenrod in flower on a sally in the woods.

The very rainforest itself blooming.
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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 19d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds

An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’

www.theguardian.com

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