N.Ireland
NI Water's target to plant one million trees is in sight, as the company's regreening programme reaches the midpoint in its 10-year plan.
DAERA has made appointments to the departmental board and to the boards of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) and Forest Service.
Minister Andrew Muir announced the launch of a wind energy market engagement between the Forest Service and the renewable electricity sector.
The Department for Agriculture (DAERA) has extended the deadline for its competition to recruit non-executive board members.
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has launched a competition to recruit non-executive board members.
All the support schemes available to forestry in Northern Ireland have been ended, according to a forestry stakeholder
A leading forester has indicated that the 2023/24 tree planting season in Northern Ireland could potentially be written-off....
Forest Service an agency for the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has announced the reopening forestry grant schemes.
Forestry
The Department of Agriculture "is consistently making its own targets", according to Forest Industries Ireland (FII).
There are approximately 4,700 forest licence applications currently in the system, according to Minister Hackett.
The Forest Service is beset with "massive problems" according to one TD, who has called for the minister to "crack the whip" in the service.
Save Leitrim has issued a response to the recent announcement by the Department of Agriculture on the issuing of forestry licences.
The recent study into forestry in Co. Leitrim has been described as "flawed" and "nothing but a tick-box exercise" by Pat Collins.
Farmers have been warned by the IFA to be 'extra vigilant' after the Forest Service issued a high fire risk warning.
Agri-Business
The IFA is calling on Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Tom Hayes, to refund thousands of farmers who have had forestry payments "incorrectly" recouped by the Department.
