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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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Love the obvious hat tip to Free Derry Corner in this new Welsh mural. 👊
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social |
16459 followers 425 following 641 posts
Author of award-winning bestseller 'An Irish Atlantic Rainforest'. 15 years living with 73 acres of wildland in Beara, West Cork. #Rewilding.
(Also on Twitter + Instagram.)
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Love the obvious hat tip to Free Derry Corner in this new Welsh mural. 👊
4 replies 41 reposts 216 likes
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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1. Ireland was once c. 80% rich, native forest 2. It's now c. 1% 3. Most of that 1% is dying due to overgrazing 4. The invasive alien species most responsible IME are either protected (sika deer), or there's a campaign to make them so (feral goats) I *really* despair at times. 🌎
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Rainforest, as viewed by one of its wingless inhabitants like pine marten. A world of lush, vibrant greens. 🌏
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Photo from David Hetherington + Laurent Geslin's brilliant book 'The Lynx and Us', published by Scotland the Big Picture, which I can't recommend highly enough. 🌏
It's also available to download as a free ebook here:
scotlandbigpicture.com/store/ebooks/t…
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Lynx serve many crucial ecological roles, yet are solitary, secretive animals only a little bigger than a labrador dog. They very rarely attack livestock or pets, and *never* people. We need to be talking about their reintroduction to Ireland. 🌎
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Bringing lynx home to Ireland wouldn't just help revive ailing ecosystems.
Sharing the land again with this exquisite cat would add a spark of frisson to our own lives, expanding our imaginative universe into new realms.
Let's do this. #Rewilding 🌍
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George Monbiot
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If Trump gets in, our new government will need to stop seeing the US administration as an ally, and recognise it as our greatest threat. And that changes everything. I explore some of the shocking implications in today's column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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This attitude is more necessary now than at any other point in history, with the annihilation of a liveable biosphere at stake. We ALL need to become troublemakers: for humanity, and for the rest of life on our precious miracle of a planet. 💪🏽🌍
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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Wild forest by the banks of Lough Derg, Co. Tipperary.
In an almost thoroughly domesticated, tamed landscape, these places are precious repositories of nature, and sanctuaries for the soul.
We need WAY more of them.
#Rewilding 🌏
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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No, really? Market forces are what's DRIVING climate breakdown. 🌎
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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A wonderfully bulbous trunk on an oak in the woods.
Every tree in a wild (ie not planted) forest is unique, with its own distinct shape, etc.
#Rewilding 🌍
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Climate News
@climatenews.bsky.social
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“Inside the eye of Category 5 Hurricane Beryl.
Earth is breathtaking.”
- @wxnb.bsky.social
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Now, an old stone wall is just bare rock. But with sheep gone, wild native trees are sprouting all around. As they close in, raising humidity levels, a great diversity of mosses, ferns, etc, will race to colonise. Nothing beats witnessing a rainforest ecosystem form. 🌎
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Wrapped around an oak in the woods, a Gordian knot of ivy stems, in turn carpeted in mosses + polypody fern. This is an Irish rainforest. 🌎
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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Massive and repeated flooding in Switzerland. Thousands of heat related deaths in southeast Asia and the Middle East. What’s looking like an absolutely devastating hurricane about to hit the Caribbean. Welcome to Global Weirding, brought to you by a minority of companies + countries.
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Climate News
@climatenews.bsky.social
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“Hurricane Beryl has officially become the strongest June Atlantic hurricane on record & it has accomplished this feat *east* of the Lesser Antilles. It’s going to be a very long season” - Eric Webb
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Compare and contrast Industrial vs. Natural 🌎 👇 10% of Ireland 👇 1% of Ireland
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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A tiny, rare fragment of wild native habitat around a rushing river at Puleen, Beara. These places exist only because they're inaccessible to sheep + other grazers.
We *know* what's required for nature to return. #Rewilding 🌎
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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust
@irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social
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Experts: Trees need good soil Ash trees: Just gimme a rock
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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How a natural forest tends to grow: lower (ie wetter + more sheltered) ground reverts first, with trees colonising rocky raised areas more slowly + patchily.
But the point is *nature* is taking charge again, at its own speed.
#Rewilding 🌎
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George Monbiot
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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Last night’s debate reminds us that we can afford no tepid or faltering response to the resurgence of oligarchic power. Defending democracy against plutocracy demands steely determination and a powerful new story. They are lacking almost everywhere. 🧵
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Lose yourself for a while, in the magic of an Irish rainforest. 🌍
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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At a time of global nature + climate collapse, around 90% of Irish so-called 'forests' are industrial plantations: total disasters on all counts, except profit. It's just criminal. 🌎
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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I'm delighted to say one of Julian Friers' (who painted the image above) amazing paintings features in my forthcoming book, 'The Magic of an Irish Rainforest'. But you'll have to wait until the book's release in September to find out which!
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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My place, in a couple of decades... 🌎
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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It just makes SO much sense to do this, on every conceivable level, and it's only a question of time. But the longer it takes, the longer before we start to see the many benefits. 🌏
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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"There 'was no money made from sheep' in 2023. Morale was never so low."
Time we gave farmers another option: being paid to REWILD.
Good for them, nature, the climate, good for everyone. 🌏
www.agriland.ie/farming-news...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Fungus and tree, symbiotic partners in a woodland ecosystem. 🌎
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Mongabay
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"25 years ago I founded Mongabay out of my love & respect for nature The growth of Mongabay has exceeded my wildest expectations...today, we have more than 100 staff members" As Mongabay looks to the future, its strategy remains rooted in the belief that journalism can drive real-world change:
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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In Ireland, if it's non-native + invasive, it'll likely be mass introduced (sitka, pheasants, sheep...), maybe even get legal protection (sika deer, feral goats...). But if it's a missing native keystone species, people will find 1,000 reasons to keep it out. 🌎
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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It's very clear where the wet zone ends on this rock cliff under an oak.
A great diversity of mosses and ferns (incl. filmy) gives way to a lifeless surface, aside from the odd lichen and algae.
#Rainforest 🌎
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Annie Leymarie
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Rule No 5 seems pretty key: "Use natural regeneration whenever possible Leveraging natural processes can be more effective and sustainable than planting new trees and can lead to much greater carbon capture and biodiversity gains. And, in fact, it can be substantially cheaper."
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Daniel
@danielrembrandt.bsky.social
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Current roof garden mood in The Hague
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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The mist is lifting now, but all morning conditions have been ideal for an Irish Atlantic rainforest. 🌏
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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A crack in the rock is all it takes for a colony of wildflowers (sheep's bit) and a rowan tree to seed in. If we let it, nature finds a way. 🌎
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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Nothing roars 'Rainforest!!' quite like a profusion of ferns. 🌎
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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What proportion of Irish people have ever actually experienced a *flourishing* version of our island's main natural biome: temperate rainforest? 0.0001%? Less? We are being actively deprived of a massive, astonishingly lovely, part of our birthright. 🌎
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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Walking through the canopy of a rainforest oak on the 'Beyond the Trees' treetop walk in Avondale, Co. Wicklow, yesterday. An interesting experience, but sadly the vast majority of trees are exotics like eucalyptus. So often, our native ecosystems seem sidelined in Ireland. 🌎
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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George Monbiot
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How Britain’s oldest animal welfare charity became a byword for cruelty on an industrial scale.
My column on the RSPCA's astonishing betrayal of its principles. It now does more, in my view, to promote animal cruelty than to prevent it. Plus bonus🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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Just outside one corner of the (now ageing) fence around the woods, showing the effect sheep grazing has: only a step above spraying the whole place with chemical biocide. Yet some still try to claim sheep are 'good for biodiversity'. It's TOTAL bullsh*t. 🌎
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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In case you're wondering what I'm on about
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Update on the champion weightlifting, shiteshifting, fern. 🌱💪🏽🌏
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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Delighted to see that some of the Rockforest pines I planted are now starting to seed themselves, with tiny cones developing. For now, Rockforest (Co. Clare) remains Ireland's sole known population of indigenous pine. They seem happy out in Beara! 🌏
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George Monbiot
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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Philip Adams, one of the greatest broadcasters of our age, is about to retire. This is one of his last ever interviews for ABC. Please do listen.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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The oldest ecosystems on Earth are likely tropical rainforests, persisting + evolving for tens of millions of years.
Yet all this ancient wonder is being destroyed for cheap hamburgers. Nor can we say "Forgive us, for we know not what we do."
We know. 🌎
nautil.us/the-oldest-e...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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We need to get *everyone* on planet Earth to grasp this most vital truth, and into the fight for the natural world. No nature, no us. 🌏
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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Most of the rich flora here, including the kidney saxifrage + dog violet, is epiphytic, growing on a tree trunk. This is rainforest. 🌎
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IPBES
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🌎🧪Why does #biodiversity matter? 🌱
Every day there are millions of interactions in #nature that are essential for a healthy, functioning planet. Losing even a small species can have massive impacts on ecosystems and on humans. 🦠
Find out more in this handy infographic.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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In Kenmare's central green, high up in the crook of a big old cedar (I think: not good on exotics!), a rowan tree seeded in, growing as an epiphyte. A reminder that even many locations like this, now urban, were once thick, wild, rainforest. 🌏
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