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Today is the day!
Over 4 years of hard work gone in to make this a historic day!
First wild wolves in Ireland today since 1786 - the pair (a 3 y/o male and 2 y/o female sourced from France and Spain respectively) have been released in an undisclosed location in SE Ireland
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Happy World Rewilding Day!
Plans continue at pace!
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We have just noticed we are just shy of the 10k followers mark!
If we hit 10k, it will change absolutely nothing but will make us less miserable for a brief moment in the midst of ecological and climate collapse! 🙃
Tell your friends!
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Do you agree that it's time for Ireland 🇮🇪 to reintroduce the wolf 🐺?
Yes Yes Yes
👇 👇 👇
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I just signed this petition, will you join me?
Please share and RT - a rewilding plan and funding for this and Nephin would do a lot of good for Ireland
via
@UpliftIRL
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A lake being allowed die
A crying shame
Lough Neagh blue green algae - it’s really bad throughout the Lough 😳
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I joined Twitter 12 years ago to get updates on bus services for college
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Spot the Barn Owl 😍 farmers were cutting the silage last night so I couldn't get a great audio recording but definitely picked up the calls of at least two Owlets from this box. There has never been owlets at this nest box before so we're a bit excited 😆
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Tell me a fact about Irish nature that isn't well known!
A lot of people don't know we have populations of stick insects in the SE of the island
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Look at the steadiness!
This beautiful kestrel was spotted on the CCTV cameras at Snetterton Circuit, Norfolk earlier this year. Quick thinking Graeme Cameron, who works at the track in race control, was quick enough to spot it "in hunting mode" and zoomed in for a closer look.
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This machine captures carbon
Carrifran 1999 and today 27th July 2022.
Landscape scale habitat restoration.
#RewildScotland
#RewildOurPlanet
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Banging my head off a wall the last few days trying to figure out why the world is sleepwalking to a fiery hell
Where is the leadership for change?
Why are we still dragging our feet on climate and biodiversity collapse?
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I want this to happen in Ireland
Do you want this to happen in Ireland?
wild birch in Glen Nevis.
if overbrowsing were reduced, wild trees would spread back out from refuge areas and assemble thousands more woods like this within decades
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This is where urban planning needs to work towards in Ireland, not the concrete barricades the OPW prefer
Good for nature, mitigating flash floods & extreme heat events caused by Climate change & making cities a bit more wild.
What cities and towns in Ireland should look like
When I die and I'm reincarnated, I hope I become a bioswale.
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Make cities wild
What if I told you there was a single intervention we could deliver in our cities that would cool them during heatwaves, reduce flooding, scrub pollutants from the air, boost biodiversity, improve public health, and even reduce crime? You wouldn't believe me. But it's true.
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Croagh Patrick yesterday
What does this scene say to you?
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4 more years until we see this scene in an Irish landscape
BREAKING: Today, for the first time ever wolves were released into the wild in Colorado. Let’s wish these three male and two female wolves good luck after this historic attempt to reestablish a healthy population in the state.
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Every year, this bullshit
"Locals have complained that the seagulls, are attacking people for food in Balbriggan in north Dublin, as well as keeping them awake at night with their harsh wailing & squawking calls"
I have news for ye, they were there 1st
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Introducing the beaver to Ireland - Damned if we do, drought if we don't
How is that for a title of a presentation?
Any better ones out there?
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Wolves aren't a prehistoric notion.
235 years.
85,840 days
Ancient Irish oak.. Old enough to have seen wolves 🐺🐺
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- Restoring wetlands and rivers nationwide
- Reducing hard engineering solutions
- Introducing more natural urban features like bioswales etc
- Looking at watertables as a whole system management approach
Some of the things I would be looking at if I was a Gov minister
⬇️Flooding in Castlerea, Co Roscommon, just now. Storm after the Sun.
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and monitor progress of pair.
This is the first step in a 7 year plan to release 50 wolves in Ireland and shows the Irish commitment to a green and biodiverse future!
Mark this historic day in your calendars!
Stay tuned for updates
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How does one come to the idea that trees need to be removed for a flood alleviation scheme?
Sad to see the removal of many beautiful old trees in St Enda’s Park and Whitechurch Road in
#Rathfarnham
Part of a flood alleviation scheme, but seems to be an over-engineered solution which is ruining the character and biodiversity of a beautiful old road 😢
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The pair have been acclimatising in a soft release area for past few weeks and have shown strong signs of fidelity to area
Locals have been very supportive of project and helped ensure project got over the line.
We in
@RewildingIre
will continue to work closely with locals
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Trees take time to grow
We need to start now to mitigate for the future
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Lads, its a tragedy we lost them
We lived with wolves in Ireland until near the end of the 18th century. The ancestors of man’s best friend. Grey wolf. Oil on canvas.
#extinctirishanimals
#extinction
#extinctanimals
#wildlifepainting
#rewilding
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11,751 signatures
One more push!
15k signatures are a strong call on the Government to act!
Lets get this petition there!
Share with family, friends and foes!
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There should be a ban on use of glyphosate nationwide.
Use should be restricted to people with licences and quantities used tracked.
Use should be approved after ecological assessment.
This is pointless vandalism
You know what.
People have no clue.
How on earth does someone think this is better than long grass.
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When you see these islands, you start to imagine what the landscape would look like without as intensive grazing and room for natural succession and regeneration
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Happy World Rewilding Day!
Plans continue at pace!
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We had a nice run, just enjoy what's left folks
Business profits are way more important than health of natural world and the continuation of our societies.
Remember that
@FineGael
are part of the
@EPPGroup
, the main opposition to this bill and remember who lobbied them.
❌ The European Parliament’s environmental committee has *rejected* the proposed new Nature Restoration Law by 44 votes to 44, after two marathon voting sessions in Strasbourg and Brussels.
@VirginMediaNews
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This is incorrect 👍
“These fires had nothing to do with farmers and are a clear indication of what can happen when the lands are not being managed."
@JoinINHFA
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There comes a time when habitats will be extremely difficult to restore or create.
Ireland is next, we need to act now.
The scarred landscape of the climate crisis is clear to see from today's extraordinary satellite image.
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The only other trees visible in this photo is a monocrop plantation in the right background
We desperately need to talk about what we want and need our environment to look like
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And for this reason alone, we should reintroduce them
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Getting the public to understand that this is bad for Irish biodiversity and needs a national removal plan is harder than bringing back the wolf.
Montbretia growing profusely along the highways & byways of Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way. Crocosmia is native to Africa and was re-named Montbretia by Alire Raffeneau Delile in honour of Ernest Coquebert de Montbret, a fellow French botanist.
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LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO!
Cranes back in Ireland 2022!
Cranes pair-bonding on irish bog yesterday, great start to St Patrick's weekend. Could this be their year to succeed?
@eagle_trust
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Lough Neagh
Blessington Lake
Nobody in a position of power or responsibility is taking water quality seriously
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We had the first outing of the volunteer rhodo rangers group today
Managed to clear a substantial amount for our first day out as a group and follow up visits being planned - great to see the results
Before vs After
Would love to see co-ordinated action on rhododendron across the country, especially in areas as important as KNP.
Would people be interested in setting up local community groups to get ball rolling?
Read below if interested
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Started this petition - please sign!
The Irish Government : Stop burning our nature! - Sign the Petition! via
@Change
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Lads, there's a lot of bogland in midlands being decommissioned for extraction.
If we keep the workers employed for restoration, we could create vast wetlands/boglands that alleviate flooding, sequester carbon and would be ideal habitat for a big program like Crane reintroduction
A great original sighting by Liam Feeney of 3 Common Cranes (2ad+1juv) as they headed inland over Rogerstown Estuary and resighted by
@woodlander37
with
@JamesEnglish46
and myself getting fab views
@BWIFingal
@FingalBiodiv
@BioDataCentre
@npwsBioData
@BirdWatchIE
@BirdsMatter_ie
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Every plant, every insect, every inch matters!
Biodiversity experts say people should make space for weeds in gardens, on balconies, and in places of work. As National Biodiversity Week comes to a close, they say many of the plants people think a nuisance, are really important for nature | More:
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There's a huge discussion to be had on what our uplands should look like
The fence effect. Sheep graze this mountain to the left of this fence. The grazing pressure has changed the Heather dominated heath to transition into a landscape of much lower biodiversity dominated with molina grass.
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I'm here to post memes and reintroduce mammalian predators to Ireland
And I'm all out of memes
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Burning has no place in the Irish environment
Its use, and promotion of its use, excuses mismanagement of our countryside and national parks.
Tine mhór i nGleannán, Indreabhán oibrí dóiteáin ón gCeathrú Rua agus Gaillimh ar an láthair
@GalwayCoCo
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If you're interested in buying a few but don't want 100s/Alare not able to collect, comment below with county you are in and we can get groups of people to join up together to save a few more!
Half a million native tree saplings about to be wasted. Saving even a few hundred of these would be a good news story. ‘None So Hardy’ are selling off locally sourced native oak stock for €15/hundred trees. Who can help save some of these?
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Things that could be done in Ireland with almost instantaneous positive results for nature;
- Review/Abolish Arterial Drainage Act
- Stop burning vegetation on hillsides
- Rewet and restore wetlands and peatlands
Am I missing anything?
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And if you are saddened/disheartened or similar after finding out this is an April Fool joke - lets do something substantive to make it a reality!
Get in contact!
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On a side note - do we need all those golf courses?
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This should be woodland
Who was asking about Bluebells? This field was a wood a long time ago and though the trees were cleared the Bluebells stayed on. Last big show was 2019
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I really don't know what way we get people to understand the link between continuous destruction of nature and accelerated climate change.
Those mountains would and could be temperate Atlantic rainforest if we wanted
Completely Accidental Gorse Fire Season in full swing
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By age 30, you should have a group of friends that talk wolves, ecological restoration, and Pleistocene Trophic Rewilding baselines in Ireland, not passive income and business organisation.
By age 30, you should have a group of friends that talk business, money, and fitness, not politics and pop culture.
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The lawn is a symbol and continuation of colonialism.
It's artificial, lifeless and unnecessary management of an area that could be a natural wonder and wild.
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If we let these areas succeed ecologically and not burn them, we could have a fine herd of trees on the hills - providing essential ecosystem services
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Reintroduce wolves to Ireland.
Not because of deer management!
There are no ecological reasons why wolf populations would not be viable here
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Ireland's ecosystems are in a terrible state
We must restore balance immediately
In Killarney NP, invasive sika deer, feral goats and sheep are so thick on the ground that at times you could walk up and touch them, as with this young sika, struggling to find a scrap to eat.
Ireland's last surviving remnants of rainforest are dying, and it's such a disgrace.
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OK, I'll ask - Bears in Ireland again?
Yes or no?
🐻
Brown bears in County Kerry. Dates for both the disappearance of bears and for the arrival of humans in Ireland have been revised a few times over the last few years as new evidence has come to light. The overlap has become longer!
#extinctirishanimals
#paleoart
#extinction
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This needs to be done in every Irish city and town ASAP
Trees take time to grow.
Include bioswales into design and you've started mitigation against heatwaves and floods, which are becoming more and more common
Urban trees🌳🌳🌲keep European cities, on average, 1.07 °C cooler ❄️during summer. Every 16% increase in tree cover adds 1 additional °C cooling.
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Ireland the only country in EU without large carnivore population now?
"People need to adapt their behaviour... it's perfectly possible to co-exist with wolves"
🐺 Wolves are back in Belgium after 100 years ⬇
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I forget how much of a streamlined (but huge) predator Tuna are sometimes!
Bluefin tuna sighted from the cliffs in Cornwall last week.
Not food, not a toy for anglers, just spectacular British wildlife.
#BluefinTunaUK
📷 Gregg Deakin
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Fun fact; the majority of Ireland would be covered in temperate rainforest, globally rare and an extremely biodiverse habitat.
This could transition could be allowed happen in many places in Ireland now without negatively impacting people,communities and livelihoods.
Temperate rainforests can be every bit as magical & green as their tropical counterparts.
#ScotlandsRainforest
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Repeating myself again - bioswales/green infrastructure are vital tools in mitigating urban areas against climate change
Ask your councillors and TDs why they aren't being installed in your area when work being done!
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Italian Wolf population; 1500 - 2000
English Wolf population; 0
Just saying 🤷♂️
#ItalyVsEngFinal
#EURO2020
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Have you put a pond in your garden?
Share photos and how you did below if you did - would love to see
A pond is often one of the best things for biodiversity in a private garden
It's a great time of year to start thinking about creating a pond. A pond is the single best way of attracting wildlife! Even a tiny container pond can attract a whole host of wonderful wildlife. 🐸💦
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Reintroduce Wolves
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Is using our seafront for cars the best use of space?
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Due to climate change and unpredictability of weather patterns, a set time prescription of legal burning is foolish & endangers so much of our natural heritage
Animals don't read calendars
We need leadership in government and representative organisations to get rid of burning
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Every summer, almost every mountain on the island is burned
This should not be tolerated
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Just noticed I am about a hundred followers shy of 3000.
I started this account in January to try start a conversation on Rewilding in Ireland, didn't think I get over a thousand followers in first year.
As they say, from little acorns....
Stay tuned, there's stuff coming 👀🐺
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The optics of this are horrendous.
As Irish farmers continue to navigate miserable weather conditions & the impact to their businesses, are the people looking to use Nature Based Solutions & mitigate the impacts of climate change the enemies of farmers on the ground?
French farmers pour manure on the office of the biodiversity agency in Cleracq in the department of Lo and Garonne.
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When I text 🌳, it means give me money so I can do something like this in Ireland
Carrifran 1999 and today 27th July 2022.
Landscape scale habitat restoration.
#RewildScotland
#RewildOurPlanet
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236 years ago, the wolf roamed Ireland
My Grandfather was born in 1930s
His father in 1890s
His grandfather in 1850s
His Great-Grandfather in 1810s
5 generations back bring the wolf into living memory
This is not ancient history, we have a duty to restore nature that is lost
We lived with wolves in Ireland until near the end of the 18th century. The ancestors of man’s best friend. Grey wolf. Oil on canvas.
#extinctirishanimals
#extinction
#extinctanimals
#wildlifepainting
#rewilding
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Would you consider the introduction of the beaver to Ireland as something to be considered?
Beavers are ecosystem engineers! Just this week a pair have been released on exmoor to curb flooding and improve biodiversity.
//
@nationaltrust
@uniofexeter
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There should be no legal burning season in Ireland.
This is mindless destruction.
How do we stop this?
Nasa fire app allows you to measure the approximate area of each burn. Yesterdays fire near Eyeries was 460 acres 🔥
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Parts of Ireland not far off this
Hiked for 7 hours today not a single native tree and very little wildlife.
#RewildScotland
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Sorry to report that this was an April Fool's joke!
But as always, the majority of replies are positive responses and words of support!
Why the false perception exists that the majority of people in Ireland aren't in favour of predator reintroduction is a real puzzle to me?
🤷♂️
Today is the day!
Over 4 years of hard work gone in to make this a historic day!
First wild wolves in Ireland today since 1786 - the pair (a 3 y/o male and 2 y/o female sourced from France and Spain respectively) have been released in an undisclosed location in SE Ireland
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Abbeyleix is one of Ireland's most important woodlands and I haven't seen what the management plan is for it since it was bought by tweeter below.
Has anyone ever surveyed Irish people on whether they actually want all the red tape and ecological paperwork that prevent housing, energy infrastructure, transit and other important works from being built?
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This what I have been blue in face saying to people!
We need to leave trees alone to see what resistance we have in population - cutting all ash trees with signs of dieback down will destroy our resistant trees!
We need to leave them alone (where it is safe to do so)
Do some trees recover from Ash Dieback? We have multiple Ash in our hedges that had no leaves on the final metre or more of their top-most branches last few years, but do this year.
@IrishRainforest
@NativeWoodTrust
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We could be doing same in Ireland!
Paris is investing £225m to transform the iconic but car-choked Champs-Élysées Avenue into an “extraordinary garden.” Across the city 140K on-street parking spaces will be removed for people-space. Bold city-building leadership from
@Anne_Hidalgo
& team.
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What should the uplands look like?
This scene is easily applicable to Ireland
The land in front of the fence & the land above the fenced tree line, sheep are reared. The land in the middle is part of a military base, left to grow wild. Interesting to see what the hills should look like.
@GeorgeMonbiot
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Irish emissions up 10% for Q1 when compared to last year.
Absolutely disgraceful - free public transport, restoration of state lands, retrofitting schemes, massive afforestation roll-out and funded sustainable argicultural practices - we have the solutions to fix the problems.
Overall GHG emissions increased in Ireland in Q1 2023 according to latest figures
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Just for clarity;
Rewilding does not necessarily mean trees/woodland
Rewilding is about restoring naturals processes to create self-willed robust/resilient ecosystems, whatever that habitat may be.
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Did you know we have two species of hare in Ireland?
The Irish/Mountain Hare, native and the introduced Brown Hare.
On Rathlin Island, they have a unique population of Irish Hares that are called Golden Hares, that have a genetic variation for blue eyes!
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Denmark has at least 15 wolves!
We could have 10 times that in Ireland easily today!
Denmark is currently home to a record number of wolves - at least 15. One of these was photographed in Lille Vildmose, where it shares the area with bison, wild boar and elk.
#rewilding
#wolves
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This account is now going to donate equal time to wolves and wild boars going forward!
So much disinformation out there on boars, it is shocking!
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2% native woodland cover in Ireland at present.
A high % of island would be suitable to have temperate rainforest if it was let grow.
European averages of native woodland land cover are 20-30%
Once, most of Ireland would have looked like this: a vast, tangled temperate rainforest wilderness, bursting at the seams with highly diverse life.
Now there's practically zilch left, and even that is mostly kept to a trashed ecological state.
It's *high* time that changed.
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The removal of ash needs to be curtailed
We could be cutting down resistant trees and reducing likelihood of species survival in future
Majority of trees were not near roads, some trunks here show no sign of disease
My doctor told me to walk in nature for my health but my hospital cut the nature I need for my health down
#Hse
#Merlinwoods
#Galway
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A glimpse into the horrific result that would happen if we stopped illegally burning the uplands every summer.
How Ireland looks - v - How Ireland should look 👇🏻
Our “wild” upland areas and national parks are ecological wastelands destroyed by grazing animals or mono plantation silka spuce.
Our “wilderness” doesn’t exist - it supports no biodiversity and needs to tackled immediately
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Impossible things 2021;
Mayo to beat Dublin; complete ✅
Wolves to be reintroduced to Ireland; pending
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In light of the lively discussion on Sika invasive status, I have been thinking about the declining baseline of Irish nature & what it means for our perception
These images may be seen as wild Irish nature but are ecological nightmares on postcards
#MildIreland
#WildIreland
In Killarney NP, invasive sika deer, feral goats and sheep are so thick on the ground that at times you could walk up and touch them, as with this young sika, struggling to find a scrap to eat.
Ireland's last surviving remnants of rainforest are dying, and it's such a disgrace.
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Boar are not an invasive species, ecologically speaking
🙂
Why were a family of wild boar "summarily executed"? asks Tracie Vance on
#Liveline
.
Shane McAuliffe is a pig farmer from Co. Kerry and is also the chair of the IFA Animal Health committee. He says they are an invasive species and needed to be destroyed.
@KatieGHannon
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Petition for
@rte
to hire
@collbradan
for a nature series
happy
#NationalMeadowsDay
from
@donnarainey4
's hay meadow! this field filled with wildflowers and pollinators is recovering from intensive management - only 5 years ago it was a silage field. there's still a long way to go, but really encouraging to see wildlife rebound here
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Whats the easiest, quickest thing to do for nature in Ireland if we started tomorrow morning?
Ireland near bottom of EU league for biodiversity lands
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@rteliveline
Do not trap Pine Martens, they are a protected species
Really need some ecological training for presenters. This is a very poor showing for something that is an insurance payout issue, not ecological
#liveline
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Reflecting on this year and what is to come in 2024, I just want to say - you don't have to save the whole world yourself, there are 8 billion other people too - just focus on your own little corner of the world and don't impact other corners.
Piece by piece, brick by brick
Inspired by
@IrishRainforest
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@RewildingIre
and others, we are taking a more active interest in our sloping land down to the Slaney. Our favourite spot, the least touched,bounded by natural drainage ditches is the closest we have to any sort of rainforest
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This was probably a scene in Ireland a few hundred years ago
We don't know what we have lost
The recovering Caledonian Forest in Glen Affric.
Wet, boggy areas stunt tree growth & allow wetland wildlife a foothold. Drier areas see heather & blaeberry take the forest floor. Dead & dying trees provide a niche for nesting birds & return nutrients to the soils.
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LETS GOOOOOOOOO IRELAND
Until last winter, this used to be one of my 'routes' when walking the land. You'd need a machete to get through there now, with all the spring growth of trees and other wild native flora.
And none of it was planted. All it took to make new forest was fencing out the grazers.
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