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RDS awards make a welcome return as top forestry prizes go to Wicklow, Down and Cavan, with excellent projects in Laois, Clare, Cork and Meath running them close.
Lack of afforestation targets to help achieve net zero by 2050 and a continued crisis in afforestation and felling licences illustrate the need for a new approach.
Donal Magner looks at planting scenarios to assist Ireland in reaching carbon neutrality, as Dr David Styles opts for a rate almost 10 times greater than the current programme.
Increasing annual afforestation rates to 16,000ha is required to achieve carbon neutrality, which is double the Government's target, according to COFORD.
The disease is now prevalent throughout the country and is likely to cause the death of the vast majority of Irish ash trees over the next two decades.
Minister Pippa Hackett has defended her department’s performance on the processing of forestry licences and said reduced rates of planting will be seen as a blip in 20 years’ time.