Eoghan Daltun 🌍

Population collapse threatens future of GAA clubs across Iveragh and rural Kerry Council members warn planning restrictions and infrastructure gaps are hollowing out rural Kerry communities and threatening schools and GAA clubs

The evidence is crystal clear: killing off nature helps kill off rural communities.

Bringing back nature through rewilding helps bring back life to rural communities.
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Let me get this right, our Government thinks the reason we have a housing crisis is because landlords can't charge enough rent?
Higher rents is their solution. Remind me again how many of them are landlords?

Our mountain commonage is full of intriguing caves and other such geological features, often containing remnants of rainforest flora.

They offer tantalising glimpses into the past, and a potentially far more nature-rich future with rewilding. 🌍

ICE uses extrajudicial violence and intimidation for political ends. It's unconstrained by the law, unaccountable to the public. Its crimes are endorsed at the highest levels. What does this tell us? That it's the force of paramilitary thugs all fascist movements & governments use. It is Trump’s SS.

Ancient pine trees growing in eastern Spain have quietly recorded more than five centuries of Mediterranean weather. Analysis of tree rings clearly shows that todays storms and droughts are becoming more intense and more frequent than almost anything the region has experienced since the early 1500s.

A rich rainforest flora in 'downtown' Skibbereen, the capital of West Cork.

Its existence just goes to show how prevalent this habitat must once have been.

"Over the past decade, those of us who cover or monitor Trump and his movement have been disabused – repeatedly, if need be – of the notion that there is a limit to their cruelty, a point at which their appetite for sadism or displays of domination will be satiated....The cruelty is the point."

Hard to disagree with this.

#Twitter/X

Stack of seven books about nature

Looking for a good read about nature? From a celebration of the glorious diversity of beetles, to returning beavers to Scotland's waters, these books inspire and inform – while encouraging us to deepen our appreciation for the natural world:
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Board of Peace - Season 1

So much profound beauty in our world. But it seems the forces unable to see beyond their own wealth, power, and egos are in the ascendant right now.

It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍

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I was at the talk in Galway. It was excellent - well worth catching the video if you missed the event.

100% agree. 😊 I went off the path to climb a ridge last week and found a name carved in the very hard to reach overhang. E.Ellis. Near this crab apple tree.

YouTube video by Galway International Arts Festival The Man who saved an Irish Rainforest | First Thought Talks | Galway International Arts Festival

"The man who saved an Irish rainforest."

Last July, as part of the Galway International Arts Festival, myself and @saoirsemc.bsky.social had a great discussion around nature loss, rewilding, farming, and so much more.

It's now online, if you'd like to listen back.
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We Alone Alice Walker We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you. Feathers, shells and sea-shaped stones are all as rare. This could be our revolution: To love what is plentiful as much as what’s scarce.

This made me think of Alice Walker’s poem ✨

Wild places are the *real* gold in life.

Thank you! It’s lovely to see solidarity from so far away! ✊

Minnesota is fighting back.

More power to them! 💪🏽

Agree 100% it needs to happen in ways that don't impact nature.

Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in EU power supply Wind and solar power produced more electricity than fossil fuels in the EU for the first time last year.

Some great news to cheer us up for a change!!
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A vertical shot of a vibrant, deep orange sunset over a calm body of water. The sun is a bright semicircle just dipping behind a range of distant, dark hills, casting a shimmering column of light across the rippling water. To the right, the black silhouette of a duck flies low with wings spread, preparing to land. In the foreground, dark rocks and a slender tree branch break the surface of the water. The overall mood is warm, dramatic, and serene.

I've made a list of the best atmospheric photographers & nature writers in Ireland. From Cork rainforests @irishrainforest.bsky.social, avian expert @seanronayne.bsky.social & Dublin streets @enemygiantcrab.bsky.social.
See list & follow all! 🇮🇪👇
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FF/FG - not serious about the environment.

The IFA's resistance to rewilding and therefore the potential for the reintroduction of extinct carnivores such as lynx and wolves, will ALWAYS be foremost in the minds of FF/FG politicians at both local and national level. We need political change first before anything like this happens here.

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

Me too.

Generally, yes.

Lynx are a forest species.

Not all. Vast areas of Scotland are now being rewilded.

Also, public opinion must count for something.

The last poll showed 61% (and rapidly increasing) of the Scottish public to be in favour of lynx reintroduction, and 13% (and rapidly falling) against.

If I were a betting man...