A petition calling for the rewilding of Wicklow National Park which was started by siblings of the Alvey family of Wicklow town has passed 6,000 signatures in the space of a matter of weeks. The petition is in response to the start of the public consultation into the Masterplan for Glendalough and the Wicklow Mountains National Park by Fáilte Ireland in conjunction with the Office of Public Works (OPW), National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) and Coillte along with the National Monuments Service and Wicklow County Council. Over 700 people signed up to the petition within its first two days. Danny Alvey said, 'We are overwhelmed with the support from the Wicklow public on this. I think the tinder was already there and we just lit the match. On one day alone over 1,300 people supported our petition. The likes of the Irish Wildlife Trust shared our petition on various platforms. A number of local councillors also shared it on their pages.'