How many years till they’ve bought the whole country?
qwerty_1965 on
First they came for the renewables land
Then they came for the nature parks land
And I applauded.
AggressivePie8111 on
I genuinely love this. More natural rewilding of native trees and bringing them into National Parks. Just crack on with it.
hmmm_ on
The aspiration sounds wonderful. I hope this will include building a trails network, if you want people to appreciate nature you have to get them out in it. You look at a country like Switzerland where the population are hugely protective of their outdoor spaces, yet the entire country is full of hiking & mountainbike trails, lots of huts and coffee shops built in the middle of the mountains, and they pay farmers to maintain trails. It’s being in the middle of it that makes people appreciate it more.
Useful_Engineer_1792 on
This is where some of the extra money from the corporation tax should go – the stuff we know we shouldn’t rely on.
CurrentRecord1 on
The minister looks like he was out for a jog and got stopped to do an interview
madladhadsaddad on
I agree, start planting native forest on national land and just leave it to develop naturally.
ErrantBrit on
Hard to know how I feel about this: on the one hand, the Irish people are crying out to reconnect with nature – most only see it through the prism of agriculture and we know what the problems are with that. The cynic in me would say that to do this, is a payment of taxpayers money to wealthy landowners to exit the market. That’s going to be expensive. Then you’ve got to manage the land accordingly – hire people, pensions, budget for the work – I have reservations about the potential pitfalls of this (cough HSE cough OPW). It is a two way street: it bring in private contractors (although we’ve seen how that goes some times cough bike shed cough childrens hospital) who contribute to the tax base, as well as supports tourism (both internal and external). I can see why the government is somewhat forced to take this position (farmers/landowners require an income and biodiversity just doesn’t do that in a private format at present) – but the bottom line is it will be expensive.
DocumentOk1598 on
Imagine if they bought all those folios surrounding Carrauntoohil and we no longer had to worry about farmers with shotguns stalking us through the kerry wayÂ
InfectedAztec on
Fantastic idea. I dont even care if someone is profiting off it if it means we as a people make real progress to reforesting and rewinding our island.
It was all a forest before we arrived and we should return it to that state where possible.
HighDeltaVee on
It’s all win… use excess cash to repurchase large contiguous areas into State control, reduce farm emissions, and start building large nature amenities. Plus start rewilding and reforesting work… that’ll take decades but the time to start is now.
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How many years till they’ve bought the whole country?
First they came for the renewables land
Then they came for the nature parks land
And I applauded.
I genuinely love this. More natural rewilding of native trees and bringing them into National Parks. Just crack on with it.
The aspiration sounds wonderful. I hope this will include building a trails network, if you want people to appreciate nature you have to get them out in it. You look at a country like Switzerland where the population are hugely protective of their outdoor spaces, yet the entire country is full of hiking & mountainbike trails, lots of huts and coffee shops built in the middle of the mountains, and they pay farmers to maintain trails. It’s being in the middle of it that makes people appreciate it more.
This is where some of the extra money from the corporation tax should go – the stuff we know we shouldn’t rely on.
The minister looks like he was out for a jog and got stopped to do an interview
I agree, start planting native forest on national land and just leave it to develop naturally.
Hard to know how I feel about this: on the one hand, the Irish people are crying out to reconnect with nature – most only see it through the prism of agriculture and we know what the problems are with that. The cynic in me would say that to do this, is a payment of taxpayers money to wealthy landowners to exit the market. That’s going to be expensive. Then you’ve got to manage the land accordingly – hire people, pensions, budget for the work – I have reservations about the potential pitfalls of this (cough HSE cough OPW). It is a two way street: it bring in private contractors (although we’ve seen how that goes some times cough bike shed cough childrens hospital) who contribute to the tax base, as well as supports tourism (both internal and external). I can see why the government is somewhat forced to take this position (farmers/landowners require an income and biodiversity just doesn’t do that in a private format at present) – but the bottom line is it will be expensive.
Imagine if they bought all those folios surrounding Carrauntoohil and we no longer had to worry about farmers with shotguns stalking us through the kerry wayÂ
Fantastic idea. I dont even care if someone is profiting off it if it means we as a people make real progress to reforesting and rewinding our island.
It was all a forest before we arrived and we should return it to that state where possible.
It’s all win… use excess cash to repurchase large contiguous areas into State control, reduce farm emissions, and start building large nature amenities. Plus start rewilding and reforesting work… that’ll take decades but the time to start is now.
Yes , great idea