Forestry caused a mainstream furore over the weekend when An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tweeted that the Government was committed to planting 440m trees over the next two decades. A good day for tree-huggers and climate activists everywhere.
Forestry caused a mainstream furore over the weekend when An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tweeted that the Government was committed to planting 440m trees over the next two decades.
A good day for tree-huggers and climate activists everywhere.
Varadkar said the target was “achievable” but failed to say that 440m trees equates to 8,000 ha/year – a target that the Government has already set and consistently missed over the last number of years.
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