Eoghan Daltun 🌍

Dreams of an Ireland once again rich in wild places and life.

We can turn them into reality.
#Rewilding

Pink rhododendron at the Seattle arboretum

This! My theory also is that we have VERY similar weather and ecosystems, which explains why our native PNW rhodies grow in Ireland as invasives and the native Irish broom is highly invasive in the PNW. Our similarities are uncanny yet each environment is highly specialized.

Gorgeous pics, Paul. Thanks for sharing!

White mushroom on a dark cut edge of a log.

You forest so reminds me of ours here in the US Pacific Northwest (PNW), Eoghan. Life at every level. And this is also the fairyland mushroom season!

Not eating animals is a very robust rule of thumb when it comes to reducing your environmental footprint and the amount of suffering your diet may be producing.

There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Climate change is no longer a threat of the future. It is a tragedy of the present. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Brazilian President

Vanished 240 Years Ago, the UK’s Largest Bird of Prey Just Returned to English Skies Like It Never Left After vanishing from England centuries ago, a fearsome predator is now soaring back into southern skies—and it's not just passing through.

Vanished 240 years ago, the UK’s largest bird of prey – the white-tailed eagle – just returned to English skies like it never left.
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Winter sunlight rakes an Irish Atlantic rainforest.

Zelenskyy to negotiate with Trump over US-Russia peace deal requiring painful concessions Ukrainian president’s office issues statement after other officials condemn ‘absurd’ plan to end conflict

Trump's peace plan for Gaza totally biased towards Israel, fascist genocidal imperialist.

Trump's peace plan for Ukraine totally biased towards Russia, fascist genocidal imperialist.

Anyone see a pattern here?
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A man with a mission

IFJ probe 'undermines' EU-Mercosur trade deal, says IFA The Irish Farmers' Association has said an investigation carried out by the Irish Farmers Journal in Brazil undermines arguments by the European Commission that the EU-Mercosur trade deal should be ap...

The EU-Mercosur trade deal will be a disaster for rainforests and other natural ecosystems in South America, as well as the climate. Every environmentalist should be fighting this.
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A twist in the otherwise straight stem of a Scots pine in Glengarriff likely indicates where, one year, the central growth candle was damaged, and one of the lateral shoots took over.

A tree's shape can tell a lot about its life story.

Up to €2.7m worth of energy ‘wasted’ every day by State, committee told Wind farms wound down or shut down at night while households are in fuel poverty, says energy charity chief

The Irish State is dumping €450 million of wind energy a year, despite 29% of households suffering fuel poverty, because 'there's no market'.

If you're struggling to get your head around that, it's called capitalism.
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He’s a sealion.

Or a troll - simply out to get a reaction 🙄

Blocks everyone that challenges him to answer with anything other than a change in framing and/or another question.

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The hidden deforestation beneath the waves | Euractiv Tackling the carbon emissions of bottom trawling is a fast and effective way to forestall climate change while protecting our precious marine ecosystems. But despite the minimal returns, governments a...

#BottomTrawling not only destroys habitats in MPAs, it also fuels the #ClimateCrisis by resuspending seabed carbon. Yet European governments still subsidise it.

Ahead of #COP30, it’s time to end this destructive practice.

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Hundreds of Millions starving, hundreds of millions being forced from their homes through man made climate change disasters

Tell us again about prioritising human life?
Oh, you just mean white rich western lives is it?

Can't make much profit off a dead planet bud

So the sole human destiny is to keep on killing off nature until the biosphere collapses, and us with it?

Sorry, but I believe in another future, in which *both* nature and people thrive.

It IS possible.

So the sole human destiny is to keep on killing off nature until the biosphere collapses, and us with it?

Sorry, but I believe in another future, in which *both* nature and people thrive.

It IS possible.

Astonishing that it even needs saying, but sadly a very large portion of the planet’s human population is currently stuck in a death cult.

And they don’t realise it - which makes it far worse.

I prioritise BOTH. And you?

Because if you're foolish enough to think it's one or the other, you should understand that killing off nature will be the death of us too.

I prioritise BOTH. And you?

Because if you're foolish enough to think it's one or the other, you should understand that killing off nature will be the death of us too.

Correct. This was on my mind writing the thread above, but I didn't want to dilute the core message.

What we think of as 'rich ecosystems' were really just a recomposition of those mostly smaller species that survived, in the same way as if all the megafauna was killed off in Africa (exactly what's now happening), the smaller stuff would carry on, in a highly impoverished ecosystem.

Late Pleistocene extinctions - Wikipedia

The idea that our ancestors 'lived in harmony with nature' is a myth.

The reality is our species' spread across the globe brought a cataclysm of extinctions from which the planet has never recovered.
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* Only in Africa did megafauna have the chance to co-evolve a healthy fear of this scrawny, puny looking primate, but in reality the most dangerous predator of all.

On other continents, where our ancestors arrived out of the blue with fully developed hunting techniques, big animals had no chance.

Africa is our species' home.

It is the continent where Homo sapiens first originated, and from whence we spread across the rest of the planet. For that very reason, it's also where most megafauna survived – elephants, lions, hippos, etc... *

We are ALL Africans, every last one of us.

The clue to what biodiversity means is in the name. If you’ve only one species it’s not diverse and it’s not an ecosystem