Forestry
Teagasc issues stark warning on Irish forestry carbon sink
Ireland’s forestry carbon sink is going to “fall off a cliff in the next three to four years”. That was...
Forestry
Ireland’s forestry carbon sink is going to “fall off a cliff in the next three to four years”. That was...
Forestry
The EU has moved to ensure that food products that are produced as a result of deforestation are kept off...
Grass
A soil strategy for Europe has been launched that will aid the health and productivity of the “magic carpet” beneath...
Agri-Business
In 2012, there were 20,000ac of privately planted ash trees but at least 95% of those trees are now diseased,...
Forestry
The Association of Farm and Forestry Contractors in Ireland (FCI) has made the decision to postpone its Contractor Day 2021...
Forestry
A TD has argued that the type of forestry carried out in Ireland is “not environmentally sustainable” due to a...
Forestry
The forestry-licensing debacle was the subject of another Dáil discussion recently with Labour Party agriculture spokesperson, Seán Sherlock and chair...
Forestry
Agriculture ministers from EU members states have formally called for curbing global deforestation following a meeting today (Monday, November 15)....
Forestry
Independent TD for Laois-Offaly Carol Nolan has questioned “the capacity of government to effectively respond” to the ongoing crisis in...
Forestry
The recently published second interim report from Project Woodland has raised the ire of the members of Irish Forest Owners...
biodiversity
The role of Ireland’s 700,000km of hedgerows in achieving our climate targets has been overlooked in the design of the...
Environment
Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has announced Glenarm Forest as Northern Ireland’s first accredited Queen’s Commonwealth Canopy (QCC) conservation forest. Minister...
Forestry
A shortfall of approximately 120,000t of logs per annum has been caused by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the...
Environment
Yesterday (November 4), the government published its Climate Action Plan which confirmed that the agriculture sector will have to cut...
Environment
Changing the way we use our land – how we farm it and what we grow on it – will...
Forestry
A recently-formed group representing the private forestry sector in Ireland held its first major public action today (Wednesday, November 3),...
Forestry
A Fianna Fáil councillor in Co. Kerry has called on the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine to provide “increased...
Forestry
The private forestry sector united in protest today (Wednesday, October 3) to demand greater intervention from government to help solve...