Better logging practices are just one way that Gabon hopes to develop while still battling climate change, write Lee White and Tanguy Gahouma.

As Ireland continues to fail to meet its forestry targets, efforts are being redoubled to urge people to plant more trees, writes Donal Hickey

Cork City Council has said it has not been contacted by insurance companies following reports that local authorities have been offered lower premiums to cut down trees.

1,000 trees could be felled in Shankill in Dublin to make way for Bus Connects.

On a recent radio programme, an eminent environmental scientist claimed that the single most effective “tool” we have to combat the threat of climate change is: the tree. Trees are highly successful in removing carbon from the atmosphere — natural carbon extraction!

Under the proposals up to 1,400 people could also lose part of their gardens.

Cork City Council says it plants around 200 trees a year, amid criticism that the local authority is cutting down plantlife to the detriment of the city centre’s environs.

Trees that were taken down from one of Cork’s main thoroughfares were removed due to health and safety concerns, according to the City Council.

It is essential for landowners to check their lands for dangerous or falling trees

You can lead a farmer to water but you can’t make him drink.

A new book details how the lives of trees at Áras an Uachtaráin did not end when they were felled in storms, writes Aileen Lee.

Ireland’s agriculture sector is facing increasing pressure to improve farm sustainability on many fronts.

 

Ray Ryan looks at some of the highlights of ESB Tree Week, which is encouraging communities to develop ‘NeighbourWood’ activities.

The junior minister with special responsibility for forestry, horticulture and food safety, Tom Hayes, has been criticised for having some of his election posters nailed to trees around Clonmel.

Andrew St Ledger of The Woodland League looks at the benefits that planting native trees can bring in the battle to control waterways prone to flooding

Peter Dowdall muses on the wonders of autumn’s hues and suggests some trees and climbers to plant for now.

When designing a new garden, trees really should be the first feature to be considered, but great care must be taken as some have damaging root systems and should be avoided in small gardens, says Peter Dowdall.

The number of trees on Earth has almost halved since the beginning of human civilisation, a new assessment has found.

Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia and its name, in the Amharic language, means ‘new flower’. 

THERE’S good news on the wildlife front; BirdWatch Ireland has announced that terns nested very successfully on the east coast this summer. The numbers breeding ‘are at an all-time high’, says tern expert Dr Steve Newton.

A FRIEND and neighbour of mine owns a farm on which there are several hundred beautiful mature trees. He loves them but recently they have cost him rather a lot of money.

Some of the oldest and rarest trees destroyed in Limerick’s People’s Park by Storm Darwin are being given a new lease of life by being transformed into works of art by the City and County Council’s Parks Department.

I WENT down to my little wood the other day to check up on the progress of spring. It was sunny and the birds were singing but the ground felt cold and some things were behind schedule.

Moves are under way to cut back dangerous trees along a 1km stretch of one of the country’s busiest tourist routes. A number of fatal accidents involving trees have occurred on the Ring of Kerry road just outside Killarney and recent storms have made trees unstable, it has been claimed.