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Department issues orange high-risk fire warning
Darren Carty
The warning applies to all areas where hazardous fuels such as dead grasses, heather and gorse exist and remains in place until at least Monday 7 April.
4 April 2025 Forestry
Strict import controls needed for used forestry machinery – IFA
The association hopes that these controls will ensure all imported used forestry machinery goes through strict biosecurity measures to stop the spread of harmful diseases.
3 April 2025 Forestry
Coillte and IFI publish agreement on nature restoration and climate action
The agreement will work to deliver conservation projects aimed at protecting, enhancing and restoring important ecosystems across Coillte’s forestry estate and Ireland’s inland waterways.
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Farmland ownership to be examined
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No EU requirement for forestry replanting
The present requirement to replant after clear felling is a major obstacle to afforestation in Ireland, claimed consultants.
2 April 2025 News
Farmland ownership to be examined
JUSTLAND: A Just Transition for Land in Ireland will be funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Agriculture over 22 months beginning in September.
2 April 2025 News
Just 4% of ash dieback compensation paid
The Climate Action Performance Payment Scheme (CAPP) was announced last April to support plantation owners impacted by ash dieback.
2 April 2025 News
Outside help needed to remove timber
Overseas contractors will be required to harvest windblown timber, while EU aid is needed for private forest owners – mainly farmers – whose forests are decimated.
2 April 2025 Forestry
Coniferous roundwood imports from Scotland are effectively over
The decision come after Scottish Forestry informed the Department of Agriculture last week that it cannot guarantee that the Scottish Pest Free Area (PFA) is free from bark beetles.
2 April 2025 Forestry
Galway farmer unable to graze his sheep due to forest storm damage
Fallen trees on Coillte lands has damaged the adjoining boundary and fencing on Aidan Mullins' lands and left him without grazing for ewes and newborn lambs.
28 March 2025 News
Home sweet Teagasc
Former Teagasc Research Centre, Malahide Road, Kinsealy, Dublin 17, to be demolished and 193 homes built.
26 March 2025 News
Forest owners should maximise the salvage value of trees – Minister
The Minister encouraged all stakeholders in the selling and buying of timber to engage constructively to ensure that the prices agreed are transparent.
23 March 2025 Forestry
Timber sales and marketing challenge
ITGA is working with other parties in the supply chain to improve roundwood sales systems, writes ITGA’s Donal Whelan.
22 March 2025 Forestry