Forestry
Inaction on planting risks sleepwalking forestry into disaster – TD
The Sinn Féin spokesperson on agriculture, Claire Kerrane has claimed that government inaction on low afforestation rates “risks sleepwalking the...
Forestry
The Sinn Féin spokesperson on agriculture, Claire Kerrane has claimed that government inaction on low afforestation rates “risks sleepwalking the...
Forestry
An area of 94ha has been approved for forestry by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) under...
Forestry
A county councillor has called on the government to set up a taskforce to carry out work to remove ash...
Forestry
Forest Industries Ireland (FFI), the national trade association within Ibec, has voiced concerns about the government’s draft Hen Harrier Threat...
Forestry
An area of 65ha has been planted in the first six weeks of 2024, according to the latest figures from...
Forestry
Coillte, Ireland’s semi-state forestry company received permission to afforest just over 61ha in 2023, recent figures have shown. Under Coillte’s...
Forestry
Minister of State for Land Use and Biodiversity, Pippa Hackett, has launched the new Native Woodland Conservation (NWC) Scheme aimed...
Forestry
Sinn Féin spokesperson on agriculture, Claire Kerrane has called on Minister of State Pippa Hackett to publish the government’s ash...
Forestry
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has said that his department is ready to issue sufficient...
N.Ireland
Scottish Forestry has today (Wednesday, February 7) announced new restrictions on moving spruce logs with bark to the “island of...
Forestry
A TD has claimed that an electricity power line maintenance team “got lost” while looking for a line fault in...
Rural Life
With less than a month to go, Coillte is gearing up for National Tree Week, as it today (Monday, February...
Forestry
Afforestation programme payments amounted to €61.4 million in 2022, a decrease of 1.4% when compared to 2021 according to the...
Forestry
A total of 38 afforestation licences were issued by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) in the first...
Forestry
Forest Industries Ireland (FII) has said that timber, predominately from Sitka spruce, worth over €2 billion will be harvested over...
Forestry
The total area of Sitka spruce that was planted in 2023 was the lowest in a gradual year-on-year decline that...
Forestry
Forestry sales have reached an “all time high”, with year on year increases between 15-25%, according to Tradeforus Forestry Ltd....
Forestry
The Social, Economic Environmental Forestry Association of Ireland (SEEFA) has claimed that less that 1,500ha of new forestry will be...