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Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett, has launched the Department’s annual Forest Statistics Report for 2023, which shows that forestry continues to grow throughout Ireland.

Weak home market driving increased pulpwood exports 2023-08-30

The EU Commission has today approved, under EU State aid rules, a €45 million Irish scheme to promote sustainable forest management.

The Department of Agriculture (DAFM) is inviting tenders for a €9 million contract for ecology services for the National Forestry Programme.

We need to get back to planting far more new forests, but forestry must be a financially attractive proposition if we are to encourage large-scale planting, writes Mark McAuley

State spending on forestry activity, largely directed towards encouraging private landowners to plant trees, has increased for the first time in almost a decade.

Tree planting across Ireland is “far below” the level needed, the minister of state in charge of forestry has admitted.

While €308 million has been approved for afforestation in Ireland, "ambiguity" remains over the remaining €1 billion of the Forestry Programme.

Turning a forestry vision into reality 2023-08-23

Ireland will need to plant far more than the 8,000ha per year Government target to meet its climate action commitments, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said.