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Cam Dhoire (the crooked wood), an Ancient Woodland in Glen Mallie, Lochaberlike so many now remote woods in the Highlands, this place has almost been erased - culturally by the

Glen Carnach, a remote glen on the edge of Knoydart - it takes the guts of a day to get here from the nearest road. this majestic place was once

deer populations have 'irrupted' (undergone explosive population growth) in Scotland and across the world wherever their predators have been exterminated. by contrast, persistent irruptions have never been documented in areas

thread: in 1654 the Irish Civil Survey described the woods of Dungannon as 'very much destroyed & Wasted... There are yet some usefull Woods for Countrie buildings, as the Braintree,

sound on! this is Cah Wood, an ancient woodland in Co. Derry. the amount of life here is dazzling- underpinned by a natural tree canopy, complex understory and thousands of

this heavily grazed field supports some of Ireland's most threatened species, including Irish lady's tresses orchids, marsh fritillary butterflies and narrow bordered bee hawkmoths. but why this field? (thread) 2

9 fields become 3. hedges are one of the last refuges for wildlife in our sterilised countryside, and the 1st thing new landowner does here is gouge them out. i

the shocking contrast between ungrazed hazelwoods in Ireland (left) and heavily deer grazed hazelwoods in the Scottish Highlands (right). unnaturally heavy grazing has stripped away so much life, and its

in Ireland, the extinction crisis is green:1) green fields are sterile and simple. each was created through the destruction of a complex wood, bog or meadow that came before. their

really intrigued by this little 1 acre hazelwood near Kilrea. the wood itself seems to have originated just after famine (~170 yrs ago), but in the middle is what appears

at a glance, this is just another commercial spruce plantation- a type of intensive forestry that covers more of Ireland than counties Louth, Carlow, Dublin and Longford put together. but