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Celebrate trees biodiversity week 2022

Celebrate trees, nature and wildlife during Biodiversity Week 2022. Crann in association with Belvedere House Gardens & Park host a free guided woodland walk in the company of Diarmuid McAree, covering ecology, biodiversity, tree identification etc. on Sat 14th May 2022 at 2pm

Assist the 11th POC planting 1200 native trees

With your help, the 11th Potential Officers’ Class will plant 1200 native Irish trees in Ireland’s garden, Co. Wicklow. For each €5 donated, they will plant a birch, alder, or oak tree on your behalf. You can make a donation a GoFundMe. Even a small donation could help them reach their fundraising goal. And if you can’t make a donation, it would be great if you could share the fundraiser to help spread the word. 100% of all money raised …

Tree Planting Initiative by Crowne Plaza and Panda Greenstar

During National Tree Week, the Crowne Plaza Dublin-Northwood Hotel is answering the call to ‘Plant for our Planet’.  The Crowne Plaza recognises its responsibility for the environmental impact of their business and is constantly working on innovative ways to improve and counteract any such impacts.  With the support of Panda Greenstar, the Crowne Plaza have partnered with Crann – Trees for Ireland to host a range of tree planting, educational and climate action activities which will benefit various communities.  To …

National Biodiversity Conference 2019

Speech by President Michael D. Higgins National Biodiversity Conference, Dublin Castle, Thursday, 21st February, 2019 A chairde, In so far as language is part of biodiversity, let me begin with just some words in our own ancient language. Ar an gcéad dul síos ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil libh uilig as ucht an cuireadh a bheith libh inniu agus as ucht an fíorchaoin fáilte a dhearadh sibh romham ar maidin. Is í seo an dara lá agus sinn …

Why forests are the best ‘technology’ to stop climate change

by Jennifer MorganExecutive Director of Greenpeace International Expanding forests is a much more effective solution to climate change than bioenergy. A view is seen from the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) in Sao Sebastiao do Uatuma in the middle of the Amazon forest in Amazonas state, Brazil [Bruno Kelly/Reuters] The warning from the world’s top climate scientists that carbon dioxide (CO2) will need to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is both a …