Ireland on fire: With hill fires devastating habitats in dry spells, we need tougher enforcement, restored peatlands and a new approach to managing uplands...
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It’s #WorldOceansDay
We just did a full #RTECountrywide on why Marine Protected Areas are now critical.
Listen: 👉 dj.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
The map is a Spillhaus Projection of the globe I keep on my office wall as a reminder of why the oceans matter.
With hill fires devastating habitats in Ireland in dry spells, we need tougher enforcement, restored peatlands and a new approach to managing our uplands, writes Pádraic Fogarty.
Related story on how Denmark has abolished it's Department of Agriculture! "In their place will be a minister for nature and animal welfare, with the agriculture portfolio split between that department and four others"
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
This is my story from 2024 as background to what is the largest initiative in the country to restore native forest using rewilding principles
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
"Rewilding is a deeper, more philosophical way of thinking about our future and about how we interact with nature"
And it's reversing damage that's been done to nature all over the world!
www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/artic...
Two years since I was last in Glenveagh National Park and there are clear signs that a reduction in deer numbers is effective in restoring and expanding the native, fantastic to see!
More native forests and wetter bogs will help fire proof our country while we also need stiffer fines and more prosecutions for fire starters.
The law should include an outright ban on burning the countryside.
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Extraordinary development in Denmark where commercial fishing is now within the Department for the Environment and the new minister was until recently the head of the Danish Society for Nature Conservation 👀...
thefishingdaily.com/latest-news/...
I interviewed Maria Reumert Gjerding last year for this article about the 'Agreement on a Green Denmark' which is radically progressive when you look at the stagnation in Irish farming and fishing. I wish her well!
www.irishtimes.com/science/2026...
The Journal
Mette Frederiksen’s new government promises overhaul for people – and animals – in home of ultra-intensive farming
Once-exploited environments are being brought back from the brink by rewilding — and tourism is playing a role in sustaining this ecological regeneration.
With hill fires devastating habitats in Ireland in dry spells, we need tougher enforcement, restored peatlands and a new approach to managing our uplands, writes Pádraic Fogarty.
