Campaigns

Answers to parliamentary questions
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A protest for the forest, at eight IKEA stores in Sweden
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Taoiseach Enda Kenny filmed chopping down a tree during Ireland’s National tree week
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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.
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Hidden beneath the proposed sell off of public forest trees is the loss of sovereign land which the trees are growing upon.
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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.

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.
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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.
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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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The Woodland League

Dedicated to restoring the relationship between people and their native woodlands