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  • Windblow reconstitution scheme opens with €55m funds for forest owners
  • How is the NI forestry development project faring at midpoint?
  • Island launches crowdfunder to transform spruce plantation into native trees forest

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Windblow reconstitution scheme opens with €55m funds for forest owners

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon, has today (April 15) announced that applications are now open for the 2026 Reconstitution Scheme for Windblown Forests...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

How is the NI forestry development project faring at midpoint?

Six years into the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA’s) key forestry development project for Northern Ireland, tree planting rates have been much lowe...

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thenational.scot /1 month ago

Island launches crowdfunder to transform spruce plantation into native trees forest

A TREE nursery on a Hebridean island has launched a Crowdfunder aiming to raise £14,000 to help it continue its work replacing single-species sitka spruce plantation

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Department launches call for forestry promotion projects

Minister of State for forestry, farm safety and horticulture Michael Healy-Rae has launched an open call for proposals for forestry promotion projects. The public call seeks to sup...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Minister updates on future of Reconstitution Ash Dieback Scheme

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon has given an update on the future of the Reconstitution Ash Dieback Scheme. Minister Heydon said that while the current...

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agriland.ie /1 week ago

DAFM: 61 applications so far to €55m windblow scheme

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has confirmed that there has been 61 applications submitted under the €55 million Reconstitution Scheme for Windblown Forests as...

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independent.ie /2 weeks ago

They were told to plant a pension. Then the storm came

In the 1990s, Coillte’s call to “plant your pension now” helped define how a generation of Irish farmers came to view forestry.

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Minister clarifies payment schemes available for broadleaf plantations

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Martin Heydon has clarified the payment schemes available for broadleaf forestry plantations. Minister Heydon was made the clarificati...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Calls for clarification on future support for NI private woodlands

Premier Woodlands’ managing director, John Hetherington has called for clarification on the future support schemes that will underpin private woodland development in Northern Irela...

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agriland.ie /2 weeks ago

‘95% reduction’ in Sitka spruce planting since 1993 – Heydon

There has been a 95% reduction in the planting of Sitka spruce over the past 30 years, according to Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Martin Heydon. The minister was re...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Is redefining ‘farmer’ the key to unlocking forestry?

The government’s Forestry Programme contains a “bespoke farmer definition” to qualify for payments “to reduce the administrative burden on farmers when applying for forestry”. That...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Green light for €1.3bn German scheme to rewet farmed peatlands

The European Commission has today (Tuesday, April 14) approved a €1.3 billion German State aid scheme for rewetting of farmed peatlands. The scheme aims to reduce greenhouse gas (G...

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theconstructionindex.co.uk /1 month ago

Tilhill automates tree planting

Tilhill Forestry has trialled the use of an automated tree planting machine. The trial aims to speed up woodland restocking and creation.

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agriland.ie /1 week ago

Work underway to restore rare temperate rainforest in Tyrone

Work is underway to restore one of Northern Ireland’s rarest and most precious woodland habitats, a temperate rainforest at Lenamore Wood, in Co. Tyrone The 100-year restoration pr...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Book promoting Sitka spruce to be sent to primary schools

A book aimed at promoting the use of the Sitka spruce tree in Irish forestry will be sent to primary schools around the country. The book, title Sitka spruce, The Amazing Timber Tr...

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malaymail.com /1 month ago

N. Sembilan targets two million trees under Malaysia Greening Programme 2.0

SEREMBAN, April 16 — The Negeri Sembilan government is targeting the planting of two million trees under the imple...

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prolandscapermagazine.com /1 month ago

Defra unveils new restoration campaign as government announces largest threatened species recovery funding

The government will invest £60m over the next three years into the Species Recovery Programme, making it the largest ever government investment in directly supporting threatened sp...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Decision letters on ACRES NPIs on way to farmers

Decision letters for non-productive investments (NPIs) under the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) will be issued to farmers in the coming days. The letters are in resp...

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goodnewsnetwork.org /1 month ago

Planting 30,000 Trees Surpasses Goal for Regenerating a Rainforest on the Isle of Man

3 years ago this month, GNN reported that a UK land trust had set the goal of reforesting a 70 acre “celtic rainforest” on the Isle of Man. 30,000 trees later, the effort exceeded...

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agriland.ie /1 week ago

Decision letters going out on ACRES Landscape Actions

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Martin Heydon has announced that decision letters have started to issue on applications earlier this year for Landscape Actions (LAs)...

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agriland.ie /3 weeks ago

Germany to rewet 90,000ha of land while ‘continuing to pursue agriculture’

Germany is aiming to rewet 90,000ha of land over the next few years while incorporating agriculture and forestry. The voluntary programme is unique not only because of its scale, b...

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agriland.ie /1 month ago

Reminder to ACRES participants about winter bird food actions

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has issued a deadline reminder to farmers who are participating in the Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES). This...

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omanobserver.om /1 month ago

GOING GREEN

A strategic reforestation has been going on in Oman for five years, and the Al Masarat weather system created an ideal condition for the tree planting campaign, as the soil is read...

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agriland.ie /3 weeks ago

Almost 1,000 forestry licences issued by end of April – DAFM

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has issued a total of 995 forestry licences since the start of the year. This represents an increase of 165 licences or 20...

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