You can sponsor the return of Ireland's first redwood forest since the Ice Age

A castle estate in Co Offaly is hoping to plant 2,000 redwoods to help preserve the giants which are threatened by climate change.

The seventh Earl of Rosse has allocated land on the grounds of Birr Castle Gardens, Co. Offaly, which is home to the giant telescope built by the 3rd Earl of Rosse in the 1840s and was the world’s largest for more than 70 years.

The development, called Giants Grove, has been planned along with Crann - an environmental organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of trees, hedgerows and woodlands in Ireland - to return the majestic trees to Ireland that were once native here before the Ice Age around three million years ago.