Coillte has welcomed the announcement today by Agriculture Minister, Dara Calleary, and Minister for Land Use & Biodiversity, Senator Pippa Hackett, that funding is to be provided for the Wild Atlantic Bog Woodland Project as part of the Government’s July Stimulus program.
The project will see 2,100 hectares of Atlantic blanket bog, which is currently planted with spruce and pine forests, restored with rewetted bog and replanted with native woodlands. A wide range of contractors and experts will work on the project.
Coillte has previously completed three major bog restoration projects, with the support of EU funding, but this will be the largest undertaken to date. The Wild Atlantic Bog Woodland Project will be carried out by Coillte Nature, the not-for-profit branch of Coillte, which is dedicated to the restoration, regeneration and rehabilitation of nature across Ireland.
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