A fantastic 919 copies of 'An Irish Atlantic Rainforest' sold in only the last week!!!
I'm just so delighted the message is getting out there: that's why I wrote the book.
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Author of bestselling + award-winning book 'An Irish Atlantic Rainforest'. Almost 14 years living with 73 acres of wildland. #Rewilding (Also on Instagram.)
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And here's a view of another section of my boundary. The near side is grazed by sheep. My (the far) side isn't.
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Here's the comparison:
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This is how a severely overgrazed temperate rainforest compares to its healthy equivalent.
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The other day I posted side by side photos of overgrazed and healthy rainforest, showing the contrast in ground layer. A few naysayers jumped in, grasping for reasons as to why the comparison was 'invalid'.
A single shot of my boundary fence shows how wrong they are.
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What is now will not be forever. The Weelaunee & greater Atlanta forest will bud, grow & bloom. If we act to defend restoration & growth will follow. New life springs forth from the forest floors, from devastation.
"We are not in the least afraid of ruins."
Spring is coming.
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My favorite genre of photos is before/after pictures of human-affected landscapes being reforested and rewilded.
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The only way to stop it is to ban these poisons
Garden pesticides are contributing to British songbird decline, study finds
Scientists urge people to stop ‘spraying gardens with poison’ and adopt wildlife-friendly practices
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Denialism in one field seems to boost denialism in others. It seems to me that Covid denialism has amplified climate denialism and vice versa.
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Good thread, pointing to yet another reason why it's not just a question of decarbonising energy production.
The idea that the human economy can grow forever not only defies physics, it's one of the most dangerous threats to life on Earth.
Yet it's barely ever questioned.
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Nuclear #fusion will not only come too late to help solve the #climatecrisis. Even in the long run it will not be the unlimited energy source that some are dreaming of. The reason is basic physics, and anyone can do the back-of-envelope calculation. 
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Done all the essential Sunday tasks, incl serving the chickens dandelion treats. Now, as long as the little one sleeps, finally time to read. I dearly recommend this book
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Naturally regenerating wild native Atlantic rainforest, backdropped by the ocean that makes it so, and a bright winter's day.
Sheer, unadulterated, bliss.
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The light, composition, tones, contrast: a beautiful portrait...
Of a dead landscape.
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Hiking through a valley in Connemara I came across this old tree growing out of the verge. Knew it would make a brilliant subject for an image and all I had to do then was wait for the light. Taken a few weeks ago. 
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Inagh Valley
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Eoghan, I seen this today out walking and thought to take a picture and share with you today 😂 the picture doesn't do the red justice
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Just finished Eoghan Daltun's An Irish Rainforest.
A Love story from the heart for the 80% of Nature, homosapiens has already destroyed & an inspiring Vision of what Nature herself can regenerate, if we return stolen 50% of planet to all our fellow species
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An example of #ShiftingBaselineSyndrome in reverse:
My children are growing up next to a river inhabited by #Tayside #beavers, & my youngest has asked me:
"Mummy, a long long time ago, did we NOT have beavers in this country?"
"Yes, but even longer before that, we did!" 🥰🤩
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New study finds that half a million people are dying prematurely every year due to global insect pollinator decline.
We MUST stop treating nature as expendable, as an *externality*.
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I'm always going on about how in Britain (and Ireland, it seems) a huge issue in nature communications & conservation is that the general public thinks that grazing livestock are wildlife. This is a great example of how different a habitat would look with & without that pressure.
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This is how a severely overgrazed temperate rainforest compares to its healthy equivalent.
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The woods never feel wilder than in stormy weather. Here's a clip from last autumn.
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Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
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Yesterday I spent
a) The morning in the woods: bursting with flowers and other life
b) The afternoon in Killarney NP: nothing
The contrast is just unbearable and unforgivable. In 2009 my place was in the same dying state as KNP, but has now been vibrant + expanding for a decade.
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Several people now have made this criticism, but it's entirely mistaken. Why?
For the simple reason that *all* the ferns and other flora lower down in the right hand photo are present all year round in a healthy forest. The difference when plants are in flower is even starker.
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I am all for protection from grazing but this is a false comparison - one picture taken in summer and one in winter.
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Three jobs working on the restoration of British temperate rainforest Amazing 🤩
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We're hiring!
We have 
posts being advertised @WildlifeTrusts to help deliver our new, £38 million UK Rainforest Scheme; carbon and research manager, programme manager, programme coordinator, and rural advocacy officer.
Go to wildlifetrusts.org/jobs & search for 'rainforest'.
posts being advertised @WildlifeTrusts to help deliver our new, £38 million UK Rainforest Scheme; carbon and research manager, programme manager, programme coordinator, and rural advocacy officer.
Go to wildlifetrusts.org/jobs & search for 'rainforest'.1
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"One-third of all tree species are currently teetering on the edge of existence."
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If the forests fall, we will fall with them. #ActOnClimate
#Climate #forests #biodiversity #rewilding #worthmorestanding
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I've been to the Pacific Northwest rainforest, where most of it has been logged. Those parts that a re still untouched are truly magnificent.
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The right hand scene is FULL of flowering plants in season, while on the left there will be none, zilch, nada.
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How does flowering plants get sunlight in the right pic? How does wildswine play into these scenarios?
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That understory gives so much cover to insects, small mammals, reptiles, fungi, new growth, bacteria. The carbon capture from the mosses and lichen that can flourish there is significant. Birds find food in there, water retention is better. Understory is crucial!
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I think of this image every time some journalist complains about climate change protesters disrupting traffic…..
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But of course, it isn't merely the fact that an overgrazed forest is far less biodiverse.
Equally importantly, the whole ecosystem will inevitably die off if every tree seedling gets eaten, and there's nothing to replace ageing trees.
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This is how a severely overgrazed temperate rainforest compares to its healthy equivalent.
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20 years ago, people may not have been ready for the idea that natural regeneration of trees is FAR better on so many levels than planting.
But in my experience, now they very much are.
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Seed and or Nat Regen work well. No one listening. Tried to promote 20 years ago.
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In this case the driver wasn't long in revealing itself: sheep. Just as often in these parts however, invasive sika deer or even feral goats are to blame.
Whatever it is, the effect is much the same: wrecked and dying habitats. We treat our rainforests as if they were worthless.
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Enter any of the tiny remnants of Irish rainforest, and this is what you'll most likely see: beautiful old trees covered in mosses and ferns.
But these places need to be understood as mere shadows of what they could be, with the rich, natural ground flora entirely absent.
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A single oak tree and some holly as company surviving on a coastal cliff on an island in south conamara. So beautiful and such an important genetic source considering the next closest oak (I have seen) is ca. 10km away
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Just read An Irish Atlantic Rainforest. Fantastic, thought-provoking account of a personal #rewilding project by . Next up: The Lost Rainforests of Britain by ...
#conservation #rainforests #ecology #biodiversity
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Virgin forests of immense biological value are being ripped out on a massive scale for burning in European electricity plants, in order to produce so-called 'green, clean, renewable' energy.
It's time this utter scam ended.
Forests are NOT renewable!!
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Climate strike week 233. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #ForestsAreNotRenewable
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Amazing carpet of biodiversity on just one tree!
I had a depressing Twitter interchange with a scientist y/day who challenged me to find a richer habitat than open heather/sphagnum-dominated peatland (grouse moor). He had obviously never experienced the magic of a rain forest!
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On this ancient oak in the woods, the great variety of epiphytic plants - the indicator of rainforest - includes three actual tree species: birch, holly and rowan.
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Fossil fuel companies earning historic profits while ordinary people suffer…..
and then using these profits to invest in even more new production, driving us all towards climate catastrophe.
It has to stop.
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"A report from @CarbonBubble warned in December 2022 that oil companies are taking advantage of their increased profits to invest billions in new production that will 'tip the world towards climate catastrophe'." energymonitor.ai/finance/risk-m
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I know it well.
Combination of intensive management for grouse shooting and over grazing by those "mesopotanian monsters".
Yes, it's beautiful - but it could also be so much more.
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