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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1h

Me too, and totally agree: anyone building a stone wall is very unlikely to go to all the extra trouble and effort to stand a stone up like that. So to me it almost certainly stood alone before the wall was built, but whether it was erected in prehistoric times is harder to know.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2h

I have my suspicions that the large upright stone – about 4' 6" from the ground – in this section of walling may be a prehistoric standing stone, with the wall built around it much later. But there's likely no way to be sure, and that's okay too, leaving more space for the imagination.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2h

The wild rainforest in our place is criss-crossed with old mossy stone walls, built when this was all open farmland before the trees returned. Nature loss *can* be reversed.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 17h

At times like this, the mask really comes off the British media. There is no pretence - at all - about their impartiality or objectivity towards the Green Party. It is a blatant naked partisan cross-media assault against the Greens.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 13h

🧵Nature is more magical than anything we could invent. A fox, a woodland alive with intricate detail, & stars appearing. I’ve drawn that magic by hand in ink. Signed, original, A3 [29.7X42cm/11.7X16.5” from Ireland. More here: robertbohan.etsy.com/listing/4539...

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Fox Among Wildflowers and Stars | One of a Kind Original Art | Pen and Ink Drawing - Etsy

This Pen & Ink Drawings & Illustrations item by RobertBohan has 4 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Ireland. Listed on Jul 17, 2026

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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Choosing peat-free compost helps protect peatlands. These precious landscapes can support a multitude of plants and animals, store carbon, reduce flooding, and improve water quality. They need protecting and restoring in a big way. More sustainable swaps: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/six...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well.

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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use

The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 20h

olympic peninsula vibes

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We face a choice between heaven or hell on Earth. Make sure you're on the right side (ie the left!).

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Resistance from shooting orgs, I'd say.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yes, though even if natural predators were back, shooting would still be required to control artificially high deer numbers.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Green heaven. The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌍

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

'Open to anyone' - More hunters needed to cull booming deer population. A shame the image shows native red deer, rather than sika or other alien invasives, but good to see this message finally starting to gain traction. share.google/GB8nZPtNnH3L...

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'Open to anyone' - More hunters needed to cull booming deer population

National Deer Management Programme spokesperson Michael Keegan said any landowners with a problem should get in touch.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Data centres are a cancer on nature and local communities. Yet their electricity consumption in Ireland is almost 10x the European – and well over 10x the global – average.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The winner of Nobel peace prize doing what the Government of the United Kingdom will not do: calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.

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Environmental Pillar @envpillar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No extra funding for nature, carbon tax U-turn – the Government is clearly walking away from its climate, nature & energy security commitments in Budget 2027. Great to see coverage of our reaction to Budget 2027

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An Irish Atlantic Rainforest will be screening again in Cork next week. FYI, the film is *very* different to the tv version on RTÉ Player: much more immersive and meditative... You really feel like you've been transported into the rainforest. triskelartscentre.ie/events/an-ir...

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An Irish Atlantic Rainforest

Mon 12 Oct 2026 | 91 mins – Ireland 2026 – Documentary Director: Gary Lennon Featuring: Eoghan Daltun AN IRISH ATLANTIC RAINFOREST tells the story of Eoghan Daltun, a leading climate activist at the ...

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"We need to start birth controlling invasive humans..."? That sort of language is highly problematic, on so many levels.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Otherwise, I adopted (and have stuck to) a mainly plant-based diet well over a decade ago, also mainly for ecological motives. The ethical (cruelty) and health arguments have also become very important to me since then, but ecology remains by far and away the primary reason.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Otherwise, I adopted and have stuck to a mainly plant-based diet well over a decade ago, also mainly for ecological motives. The ethical (cruelty) and health arguments have also become very important to me since then, but ecology remains by far and away the primary reason.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I hunt alien invasive sika deer in my place and locally for ecological motives, and use nothing but solid non-toxic copper ammunition. Apart from the impacts on nature from lead, if you're consuming venison, you *really* don't want lead fragments in your food.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

GREAT news for wildlife!! But highly toxic lead *rifle* ammunition isn't included, so this fight must go on.

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Fintan Kelly @fintankelly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If we could get endangered wildlife to run around a race track they'd have a better chance at getting support from this government.

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Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"How 'blessed' can a country be if it unleashes weapons of annihilation on the vulnerable bodies of children?" Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World #SundaySentence

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 09/10/2026

Climate action is urgent—not just for our warming planet, but for generations to come. “A newborn’s healthy start must never depend on a family’s ability to escape the heat.” news.un.org/en/story/202...

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Extreme heat making pregnancy a ‘new fault line’ in climate crisis

Pregnancy and childbirth have become a “new fault line in the global climate crisis” as extreme heat worsens, the head of the UN climate action body (UNFCCC) warned on Monday, calling for maternal and...

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ancient yew and oak, growing side by side for probably centuries, their roots and crowns locked in a tight embrace. The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌍

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.

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Jonathan Watts @jonathan-watts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

More fire, more crime, more death and a globally important ecosystem driven ever more rapidly towards a point of no return. That’s the prospect for the Amazon rainforest if Flávio Bolsonaro wins Brazil’s election My take www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Flávio Bolsonaro’s advance in Brazil’s election is grim jolt for climate campaigners

Inquest under way into why President Lula’s success in curbing Amazon deforestation has not led to success at polls

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Agree. But I would just add that some meat consumption, eg where overabundant or invasive deer are killing off natural habitats, is the opposite: it *benefits* ecosystems.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"In Latin America and the Caribbean, wildlife populations fell by 95% [in 52 years, and] 80% in Africa..." How do you even compute such whirlwind annihilation of nature? *THE* best thing we can do to alter such trends? Shift towards more plant-based diets. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say

A landmark report reveals that the world must change the way it produces food to avoid a biodiversity collapse

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But a lot still needs to change in Killarney NP. There's plenty of evidence of heavy browsing of tree seedlings, and large bands of goats were present in and around the park. Designated one of the worst invasive species on Earth by the IUCN, there should be *no* goats at all in any national park.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm delighted to say that, after many years anguishing over the desperate state of Killarney NP, I'm seeing a partial ecological recovery, like this wild baby arbutus tree. Such positive signs can only mean one thing: the NPWS must finally be taking a more proactive approach to invasive sika deer.

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Not Here Not Anywhere @nhna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ireland cannot “credibly take leadership on a fossil fuel phase-out while simultaneously pushing new fossil fuel infrastructure and ever-expanding energy demand driven through the proliferation of data centres” …or while cutting carbon taxes! www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

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Ireland to miss climate targets with renewable energy being 'cannibalised by data centres'

Ireland could not 'credibly take leadership on a fossil fuel phase-out while simultaneously pushing new fossil fuel infrastructure and ever-expanding energy demand driven through the proliferation of ...

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Superb thread on who gets to claim legitimacy in debates about land, nature and the countryside bsky.app/profile/tony...

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Documents obtained by Freedom of Information requests show that parts of the 'simplification drive' have ended up closely reflecting the demands of fertiliser & chemical companies to roll back environmental & health safeguards Insects in EU have declined 75% in 3 decades www.ft.com/content/3c86...

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Chemical groups succeed in watering down EU pesticide rules

European Commission and leading MEPs side with industry demands for laxer standards

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Got a really lovely book in the post last week. And yes, I'm finally, very belatedly doing my best to learn our native language. Agus anois tá mé tosnaithe, as Eoin Warner put it to me (I had to go and look up the last word! 😄).

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 06/10/2026

Ireland's intact, natural forest is incredibly small Much of what gets counted as "forest" is in fact monoculture plantations of sitka spruce – ecological wastelands Protecting and expanding Ireland's wild nature is essential

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I stood in the presence of several very ancient oaks in Bandon's Castlebernard Woods a few months ago, and was in total awe. Such trees are now *incredibly* rare in Ireland. Please support Bandon Environmental Action Group in getting the 34.5-acre ecosystem protected. www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...