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Illaun Farm-Forest EIP• Wild Atlantic Rainforest Project• A few acres in West Clare. Interested in forests, agriculture and biodiversity @hometree__
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Walking around it always strikes me that the best way to start a real recovery of native woodlands is to allow the pockets which remain to expand naturally.
Presently these are often actively suppressed whilst we pay for woodland creation elsewhere
I made a short video about it
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I bought this place and a few acres three years ago for a good price. After work every day I'd come home, change clothes and work late into the night.Weekends the same. Pretty much finished now and its a dream.
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Farmers, if you have one of these, consider putting it on the market.
Someone WILL buy it, breathe new life into it, become a neighbour, maybe even a friend, contribute to the community, open a business, send kids to local school etc
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I appreciate, in the context of everything that's happening this is minor.
Walking in a woods yesterday. I turned on my camera & it beeped.
The sound scared the dog, he bolted, made it to the main road and was killed by a car.
Death is so intensely non negotiable.
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Sheep farmer Danjoe Cronin (on the left) restored almost 100 acres of oceanic oak-birch woodland in the Borlin Valley in Cork.
20 years ago he fenced the area off to sheep and deer, with fantastic results. The fence line is clearly visible in second pic
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My neighbours meadow.
Cut once at the end of every summer for as long as people around here remember. No fertiliser, no ploughing, no spraying.
Heaving with invertebrates & skylark❤
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The museum came back about the piece of wood found in the quern stone a few months back.
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Banning private jets would be a great first step in convincing us we are all in this together.
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The new Native Tree Area Scheme will pay farmers €20k for a hectare of native woodland over ten years.
Allowing new natural regeneration on sites adjoining old woodlands to be eligible for the scheme would be a really positive move.
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Slurry here sprayed in over a ditch in December
It's vandalism.
This person has no business farming.
The punishment for this kind of intentional damage should be a ban.
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I have a problem with this headline.
ALDI didn't plant these trees, we did.
Cost of establishment & premium per hectare is roughly €12,000
Our taxes pay that.
WEP participants like Aldi/AnPost/CIE etc make a ONE OFF payment of €1000 per hectare and take ALL the credit.
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Birds eye view under the canopy of a temperate rainforest in the west of Ireland.
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It was either a new (second hand) car, or this swampy, scrubby, overgrown slice of heaven!
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Each one of these sheep is losing the farmer money.
This is also an ancient sessile oak woodland.
With almost no tradeoffs, Its an open goal from a conservation point of view.
The issue here isn't money, it's lack of awareness due to siloed nature of farm & forestry advisory
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Planted around a thousand trees in the field in front of the house.
They are about three years old now and absolutely buzzing with bird life!
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North of Lisdoonvarna, a valley woodland of hazel and sessile oak forms a boundary between the townlands of Rooska and Knockaskeheen.
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What's holding back native woodland creation in Ireland?
A short thread
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The new "Native Tree Area Scheme" will be of interest to many farmers
Payments of €2284 per hectare per year (max 1.25 ha) for 10 years
Those planting alongside waterways will receive an additional one-off €1000/ha frontloaded.
Lots of regulations, but no license required
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Eamonn Ryan has been such a convenient whipping boy, particularly for farmers and those to the harder left.
I believe he will be remembered as some who made a difference...
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@BenGoldsmith
Hi Ben.
As an Irish person who has been to both countries, has friends in both and loves both peoples, I can tell you this.
It's not antisemitism.
It's anticolonialism.
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A remnant shred of the once great forest of aughty.
This is Gortacarnaun woods, southeast Galway, a couple of hundred metres from the Clare border.
83 Hectares of sessile oak with holly, birch and poplar
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An Drom Thoir
I spotted this woodland over the water from Murphys pub on the pier in Cé Bhréannain, Chorca Dhuibhne.
No record of it on any woodland inventories, so I went for a look...
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Chief executive of the Dublin Airport Authority "we're going to expand from 32 to 40 million passengers by 2030"
Are they living on a different planet?
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Three types of driver you meet on roads like these
1. Freezes on the spot. Can only go forwards
2. Well capable of reversing, but keen to see the driver closest to the layin go backwards
3. Giddily jams the car into reverse and heads backwards no matter how awkward it is
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If only there was another way of sheltering calves, one with a whole range of co-benifits, blended into the landscape, sequestered carbon, hosted biodiversity and did wonders for farmings public image🤷
I wondered whether the calves would actually use this shelter when we first put it up. It appears they would - there's 40 of them tucked up in there!
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Premiums to go up 70% and extended to twenty years.
State embraces "rewilding"
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The details of the Native Tree Area scheme have been released.
It looks like you can get 1 hectare of NTA1 (small forest) and 1 Ha of NTA2 (riparian forest) on the same farm. The combined payment over a ten-year period will roughly €45,000
It's also open to non-farmers.
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Tullgarvan. Like the majority of old woodlands in Ireland it's on no inventory or register, despite being long established or even ancient.
I suggest a new Native Woodland Scheme:
1. Map them. Machine learning more than capable now
2. Incentivse their expansion & connection
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Dying upland oak forest
Overgrazed, devoid of an understory and unable to reproduce itself.
These places should become the main focus of our native woodland scheme.
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@gaborgurbacs
Just spent a fortnight in US and have to agree. Food is appaling. Portion sizes are out of control
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Why is our local beach closed for weeks on end?
Why is there nothing but leeches and maggots living in our streams?
Why are people in this community getting ear/nose/skin infections after sea swimming?
A walk upstream tells all...
We treat our rivers like sewers.
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I was asking my mum this morning about the corncrake. She remembers it well.
It was gone by the time I was a kid in the nineties.
I don't want that to be the case for my children with skylarks, kestrels or cuckoos
Trust building esp on new & long term funding following broken promises/goal posts moved is essential & well articulated by
@rayofoghlu
on
@RTECountryWide
Society wants to see more nature not less & we can help farmers deliver this, if we're allowed.
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I went down on my lunch to sign for this, a small patch of high nature value farmland.
Over the 🌔
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Willow hedges transition to willow woodland.
The last shot has been abandoned over 30 years.
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National Forest Inventory just released.
110,000 extra hectares of forest since '06
⅓ of this new area is not a result of afforestation (ie planting) but instead is wild forest resulting from natural regeneration.
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6-8 foot high linear earth banks bound many of the rivers around Ennis/Limerick.
If we dont allow flood waters out into farmland, we can't be surprised when it shows up in our towns and cities.
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7 metre buffer either side of a field drain going in this morning.
3000 native trees.
550 Whitethorn
450 alder
400 birch
100 hazel
250 sessile oak
80 scots pine &10 Burren scots
This will have a positive impact on biodiversity & water quality.
@hometree__
#illaunfarmforest
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In a recent Blindboy podcast he suggested that the Irish lived in harmony with nature until we were colonised.
We destroyed the majority of our natural habitats thousands of years before the Normans or the British arrived?!
By 1000bc <20% of the original forests remained.
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Pleased to say I'm one of the five Nuffield scholars for 2021.
The area I will be looking into is the idea of social licence to return trees to the Irish landscape.
The objective of the Nuffield bursary is to "encourage the advancement of agriculture and rural development"
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We have no idea what Irelands mountains look like really.
This small patch, isolated from sheep and goat pressure has a tiny forest of birch, holly, ivy and heather.
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When I started this in 2016, I didn't know if trees would even grow here.
Now a wet woodland habitat is emerging in front of my eyes.
It's very exciting and possibly my best achievement😄
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I travelled the length & breadth of Ireland with a group of international agri scholars last summer. They couldn't believe the levels of support for small otherwise unviable farms.
Make no mistake, most farms in the west of Ireland would no longer be here if it wasn't for the EU
IFA deputy president Brian Rushe said he can “understand why farmers might be getting a bit nervous or sick and tired of what Europe is doing".
Rushe accused the EU of using the cut to derogation as a way to reduce Ireland's dairy competitive advantage.
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Tell me there's not a better way>
Met a guy who farms 250 acres of rough mountain, running about 200 sheep.
Approximately ½ come into lamb each year & he sell them for €40 each.
Farm gross turnover €4000.
Area has internationally significant bog & woodland habitat potential
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Last few years I've been finding little woods here and there in West Clare. A strong theme has emerged...many that clung on are in steep gorges/river valleys.
None are visited much so don't seem to have names, so I call the by their townland.
Here's Glendine, early this morning
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Three farms have been bought locally recently. Every tree, every bit of scrub has been pulled out each of them.
And all for what?
How can we protect places like this meandering river when farms change hands?
If we can't or wont, let's retract the "biodiversity crisis" thing.
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Why was this big open space close to Cork City centre not built on historically?
Because it's a floodplain.
Big commercial development in the 90s
What was that marsh worth to floodprone Blackpool/Cork?
Classic case of privatise the profits, socialise the costs.
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Just incase this 'drain' got any notions that it could be a habitat...
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Maternity hospitals are intense places. In amongst the exhilaration of new life, there is real sadness w/ sick babies,sick mums, and even stillborns.
The staff in Limerick are just out of this world - the care, like genuine heartfelt care!
Makes you feel proud of our country
❤
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"Go to sleep right now, or I'll never sneak you into a hotel again"
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I read yesterday that humans create national parks because we don't trust ourselves to do right by the land.
I must say, I feel fairly despondent after the weekend.
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Hardship...squared.
Old potatoe drills on the sides of mountains.
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Hearing the vice president of the IFA on the radio this morning saying "we need some help from mother nature". I couldn't help but think Mother Nature nature feels similarly about the IFA...
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The Coillte deal will result in a significant wealth transfer from working people > investors, and from Ireland > abroad.
All for management fees to be paid to a semistate of negligible finanical significance (€30 million/pa) but huge strategic significance to the state
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Divine piece of oak from a drowned forest which grew near Seafield, County Clare, 9000 years ago.
Bears may have used this tree as a scratching post, wolves may have urinated against it, sea eagles nested in its crown.
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This is really good news.
The task is enormous (70,000km waterways in Ireland)
The trick, in my opinion will be keep it simple and harness landowners capacity to implement.
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Daydreaming of linear national parks. A twenty-meter buffer on either side of rivers would make a big difference
Landowners retain ownership and nonproduction benefits (although I'm sure hardwoods could be sustainably produced).
Protected forest zones? Conservation easements?
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These soils are up to 60% carbon.
When they are exposed, drained, overgrazed etc the carbon oxidises.
It turns into a gas.
Land like this could be losing anywhere north of three tonnes of carbon per hectare, per year.
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What strategic, ambitious native woodland restoration looks like.
Glengariff. Bought by state in fifties, oaks felled, conifers planted.
Change of course towards conservation in the seventies, became national reserve in 1991
Now a sprawling patchwork of ancient and new woods
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Some of the most bewildering, and honestly boring posts on Irish twitter are farmers blaming the greens for their problems.
God knows, Eamonn & Co are an easy target, but please - FF/FG have been your rural TDs. FF/FG created the agri policy landscape you work within.
Own that
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I've asked friend in the guards and in the courts. They can't recall a single serious incident involving migrant men in Clare.
There have been thousands passed through in recent years.
Let's be honest here about who is actually vulnerable.
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A depressing sight.
No life tolerated whatsoever.
Multiple yearly herbicide applications (even in the dying hedgerows) & pesticide and fungicide
There are better ways to do this.
If the words "biodiversity crisis" mean anything, radical change must come soon.
@pippa_hackett
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If we are going to push the west of Ireland as a tourist destination and driver of economic growth, we better be willing to pay for the protection of vulnerable ecosystems and communities which exist there.
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The Gearagh
Ebb and flow of a unique inland delta.
Parts of the Gearagh are believed to exist for 8000 years. Expanding and contracting over time in response to human pressures.
In the 1950s much of the oak was clear-felled and the valley flooded for a hydroelectric scheme
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In a natural system, water coming off the land would pass through all kinds of filtering processes - healthy soil, rich in microbes, peat bogs, riparian woodlands of alder & willow, and finally wetlands of tall sedges and grass
Most Irish rivers have none of these
#drainage
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Incoming!
Hometree, an Irish environmental charity, is planning a €12m project to develop a “Wild Atlantic Rainforest” over 4,000 acres in the west of Ireland. I spoke to project lead
@rayofoghlu
about the initiative for this weekend’s
@businessposthq
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Brendan Guinan runs a diverse agroforest near Portlaoise
@fiorbhia
He has pigs, poultry, cattle and bees onsite.
See full episode here
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Lyranes
A vision of what (some) of our uplands could be
Expansive oak and birch forests stretching off into the distance.
Such a rarity at this scale in Ireland.
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Dermot Doran is one of the best advocates for farm biodiversity in Ireland.
He farms beef and sheep in Kildare. Over the years he has put a third of his farm into native forestry. He talks here about the experience.
Full video>
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Per capita carbon footprint in metric tonnes
Brazil 2.2 tons
Ireland 7.9 tons
% of country under primary old growth forest Brazil 56%
Ireland <2%
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"Our forests were destroyed by colonial and imperial plunder" says Richard Boyd Barrett.
3000 years ago 80% were already gone....felled by our good selves.
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I'm sure objectors would be flattered but in the real world it was the European Court of Justice, finding the state weren't doing their job that ground the system to a halt.
That's why there are now 30 ecologists working on licencing, as as opposed to one beforehand.
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Smashing pumpkins, Rage against the machine, Nirvana etc blasting up the N17
Feel like kicking in the front door of the school and screaming "I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE FCKIN TREES!"
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My friend built this wonderful pond on her farm.
The following year payments for this area were deducted from her single farmland payment.
Change can't come soon enough.
#cloontabonnif
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As far as the Irish state (including the Forest Service, the County Council, the NPWS, EPA etc) know, this woods doesn't exist.
It is neither mapped nor listed in woodland inventories.
Places like this should be at the very centre of our native woodland policy. Expand &connect!
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"Will they work?" I says to yerman installing.
"It will in its f#*k!" he laughs back.
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I've watched this little wet willow woodland emerge over the last decade.
Drove past this morn to see it's been razed.
Its daft to have one policy to plant native woodland and another that seeks out and destroys high quality woodland that planted itself.
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A few acres left back to nature.
It was a monoculture of rushes really when I bought it. There was a limited local seed source (just willow and blackthorn) so I added some alder, ash, birch and oak.
A pond here and a pond there...and we were off.
#treeday
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Deer fencing above and below the West Highland Railway Line allowing a linear woodland emerge.
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Fella from
@AerLingus
talking about now being an ideal time for a "shopping trip to New york"
Not really getting it, is he?
#COP
on
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Productive farm forestry- done right
Good for biodiversity
Good for water quality
Good for income
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Succession in action.
Oldest bit of woods is Hazel, then blackthorn (white flower) then gorse (yellow) then bracken, then grass.
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You have to admire willows disinclination to...you know...die.
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Rivers could be arteries of nature, stretching deep into every parish and townland.
Instead they are often glorified sewers for animal (and human) waste.
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A new one for me
Derryharriv/doire thairbh/bulls wood
A beautiful oak, hazel and birch wood north east of Slievecallan in west Clare
Like the majority of these places it is neither mapped nor listed.
In the eyes of the state it doesn't exist.
Thankfully it's growing!
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Now, I'm no agronomist...
But what I see here is very progressive farming. Min tillage retaining soil structure & C storage? combined with seed drill in single pass for less fuel use? Cover crop providing habitat, protecting water and reducing chemical inputs?
But ya...ecocide
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