Links

This website on eco landscaping with native species is targeted at local authorities, landscape designers, schools, and the general public. Reasoning behind website: The majority of landscape planting in Ireland, whether in gardens, urban parks, private developments, and retail and industrial estates is dominated by non-native tree, shrub and ground flora species. Where native species […]

In 2012, Woodlands of Ireland commissioned a report on the natural capital value of Ireland’s native woodlands. The task of compiling this report was undertaken by Optimize Ltd and was completed in late 2013 after editing. Subsequently, an abbreviated version of the report with key findings and recommendations was produced and designed to make it

This publication provides guidance to practitioners and landowners on how to achieve quality wood whilst maintaining and enhancing woodland biodiversity. It addresses the overriding objective of the Native Woodland Scheme (NWS) now Native Woodland Conservation scheme (NWC) which is biodiversity, maintenance and enhancement. The report assesses six of our native trees including sessile and pedunculate

This report was commissioned by Woodlands of Ireland on a National Deer Strategy in an attempt to distill current knowledge and experience of deer populations in Ireland, their effect on Ireland’s growing woodland resource and the likely future consequence of relatively unchecked deer population growth. In the absence of any natural predators of deer in