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Forestry
Coillte refused permission to fell over 200ha for peatland restoration
Coillte has been refused permission by Galway County Council to fell 343ha of its conifer plantation in Connemara for peatland...
Forestry
Coillte has been refused permission by Galway County Council to fell 343ha of its conifer plantation in Connemara for peatland...
Forestry
Western Forestry Co-op CEO, Marina Conway has announced that she will step down after 11 years to “hand over the...
Forestry
An independent TD has described a “rot” in the current government’s progress with the private forestry sector. Independent TD for...
Forestry
An area of 945ha has been approved for afforestation by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) so...
Forestry
Forestry Industries Ireland (FII) has said that Ireland’s “once large scale” commercial forestry model has become “side-tracked” and is becoming...
Forestry
Independent TD Michael Lowry told the Dáil that 2023 saw the lowest amount of land planted for forestry since 1946....
Forestry
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is to carry out a sample review of property sales in...
Forestry
Sinn Féin spokesperson for agriculture, Claire Kerrane has slammed the government’s failure to deliver a strategy to address ash dieback....
Agri-Business
The Association of Farm and Forestry Contractors in Ireland (FCI) has published its contractor charge guide for 2024, which indicates...
Forestry
Minister of State with responsibility for land use and biodiversity at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM),...
Agri-Business
MEPs on the agriculture committee of the European Parliament have today (Tuesday, March 19), proposed changes to the rules on...
Forestry
Vivienne Jupp has been appointed as the new chair designate of Coillte to succeed the outgoing chair, Bernie Gray. Jupp...
N.Ireland
A total of 163 forestry development licences have been issued by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM)...
Forestry
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) issued 81 afforestation licences so far this year, according to the latest...
Forestry
The Sinn Féin spokesperson on agriculture, Claire Kerrane has claimed that government inaction on low afforestation rates “risks sleepwalking the...
Agri-Business
The number of people employed in the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector increased by around 9% in the fourth quarter...
Forestry
An area of 94ha has been approved for forestry by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) under...
Rural Life
The High Court has ruled that two men who were involved in a fraudulent forestry business are personally liable for...