Tag: Coillte
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Climate activists pull up hundreds of Sitka saplings on Coillte land in North Leitrim
[ad_1] Straw Boys in traditional costumes were among 150 people who took part in the so caled direct action targeting industrial conifer plantations and highlighting the need for radical change in Ireland’s forestry policy. The group, aged 5 to 75, used the uprooted saplings to block drains in the publicly-owned plantation near Manorhamilton, thereby beginning…