Once again the sale of the public forests is announced with very little detail or background information. This time the Troika have facilitated the State regards public opposition, by changing the MOU to allow the proceeds from the sale of State assets to be reinvested in job creation.
Word Document
13 March 2012
Stop the sale of Irish forests
27 February 2012
Not Seeing The Land For The Trees
Hidden beneath the proposed sell off of public forest trees is the loss of sovereign land which the trees are growing upon.
Word Document
20 May 2011
Magical Moments with Diana Beresford Kroeger
A guided walk in a tiny segment of the great forests that once stood throughout Ireland with Scientist Diana Beresford Kroeger and Andrew St.Ledger of the Woodland League.
20 March 2011
Save Ireland’s Forests – SFTV
This is a short news item, broadcast on Swiss TV by SFTV (The Swiss state broadcaster), covering all the angles on the sale of Ireland’s forests. This includes interviews with Andrew St. Ledger, Bertie Ahern, Eamon Gilmore & Enda Kenny.
20 February 2011
State Vandalism and Neglect in a Rare Native Oakwood
This film was made to inspire the public to appreciate the true value of such remaining wild places, by creating a positive from a negative.
Vimeo Video
29 November 2010
Issues associated with the sale of Coillte
Since the McCarthy report of June 2009, the selling of Coillte, and Ireland’s entire public forest estate, has been on the cards. The Woodland League, have always suspected that Coillte was set up a) as a vehicle to facilitate the extraction of huge grants from the EU, and b) to consolidate, and sell off, a major Public asset, the largest land bank.
26 May 2010
Coillte Toxic Dump
A video showing the blatant disregard for our environment by Coillte (the Irish Forestry Board), in Chevy Chase, Co. Galway. Music by Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance.
YouTube Video
21 April 2010
Green Deserts of Ireland
A video with Andrew St. Ledger giving a brief history of Irish forests and forest policy.
10 April 2010
Recreating Eden – Diana Beresford Kroeger
Consultant scientist to the Woodland League and author of ‘The Global Forest’, ‘Arboretum America’ and ‘Arboretum Borealis’.
10 February 2010
Derrybrien Landslide
Video footage showing the devestation caused after Coillte clear-felling of 650 acres of trees on vulnerable upland bog soils, to facilitate a wind farm that is of no benefit to the local community.
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