Davvero triste vedere quanto abbiamo la foresta. Avevamo una copertura forestale del 70-80% fino a quando gli inglesi hanno deforestato l’Irlanda e abbiamo usato il legno per la costruzione di barche, ma avremmo dovuto mettere insieme la nostra merda e riforestati.
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di Gentle_Pony
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The only thing I miss in Ireland, forests :*(
% increase in forested area in the last 120 years?
Ireland #1 at 1100%
We’ve gone from 1% to 11% in 100 years
Just a note, the deforestation of ireland did occur under British rule, but wasn’t about boat building it was due to the explosion in population and the introduction of the potato which could be farmed on marginal land.
It’s still bad.
And the British were still bad.
And building British boats is bad.
It’s just not a straight line between those 3.
Gonna be tough to reforest now with farming/agriculture taking over everything.
Unfortunately there’s long been a “grassland good, woodland bad” mentality because one has cows which means EU subsidy the other was somehow foreign – the love of Dutch hippies and new age drop outs. Even now people will still think livestock should trump every other use of land.
We’ve been a poor country for most of those 100 years. Spending on a national native tree planting programme at any time before the millennium would have lost you every election.
If you feel that strongly buy some land and plant trees. Ireland would be a better place if we all took personal responsibility instead of demanding other people (tax payers) should be responsible.
Yeah the cows are the problem! We’ll likely chop down forests for solar fields knowing the direction we seem to be heading. On a positive note, I’ve planted 100 native trees over the last 3 years on some family land. Very rewarding seeing it grow.
What is the source of your statement? Per Teagasc “By 1600, less than 20% of Ireland was covered by forests.” Where are you coming up with wood needed for British boat building?
It’s very sad and a couple of additional points:
* The Brits contributed to the deforestation of Ireland but the early Irish weren’t much better. The Burren is a man-made moonscape. We were at it before the whole potato and ship thing.
* Our “forest” is mostly non-native tree farms soaked in nasty chemicals.
The reason Ireland has fuck all forest is because almost all of the land here is owned by and capable of being used by Irish people, not aristocrats.
What’s sadder is most of the forest we have recovered tends to be poorly managed monocultures completely devoid of biodiversity.
So much of ours is commercial stika spruce too, not even real forest.
I’ve planted 17 native irish trees in the last couple of months. It’s honestly addictive when you start and it was never something I was interested in before. It’s gonna be a while before I seen major changes but even to see the trees starting to show leaves now is great.
https://youtu.be/ALJvmkpLcH4
Almost all the deforestation happened long before the brits arrived. The deforestation that happened during brith rule was due to the expansion of agriculture and not for boat building and accounts for just a few percent. You would probably need to go back to the early bronze age to find 80% forest coverage
Most of these “forests” are timber plantations with trees which grow long and fast. The numbers don’t take into consideration the native tree species here and it’s sad to say but the numbers are even more depressing. Main reason a lot didn’t have power in the north after storm Eowyn was because the plantation trees all fell onto the power cables.
To add another note to the notes, afforestation has its own issues and we should be wary of it. Growing _native_ woodlands should be a priority, as should be protecting them.
That will take a long time to show any results however, on the order of centuries.
We used to have a great trade route between Sixmilebridge Co.Clare and Amsterdam and after the toll bridge in Bunratty blocked the larger Dutch barges from coming in they moved the trade to Limerick. They used to buy our lumber to bury for foundation in the sandy soil in exchange for bricks. It was a great industry for us but we didn’t make it sustainable and that’s a travesty.
It is beneficial to create smaller eco diverse tree lines and new forest, this encourages species growth and provides multiple other benefits to wild life and farm animals. This is not the planting of mass,trees of the same age and species, but building a balanced forest with and emphasis on protecting old growth, and giving opportunities to mid height and low/ ground vegetation.
Ireland is not a “green” country in most metrics when compared to other European countries. We have less forest coverage, national parks and green space than almost anywhere else. The emerald isle is a lie- we are an ecological deset
Malta is a very small hot but pleasent island rock, and doesn’t really count.
Nederlands has a huge horticulture sector, great for food security, nature and pollinators.
Essentially Ireland is the worst, and is only planting large non-recyclable fibreglass windmills out at sea.