Eoghan Daltun 🌍

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Author of award-winning bestseller 'An Irish Atlantic Rainforest'. Over 15 years living with 73 acres of wildland in Beara, West Cork. #Rewilding.

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The magic of an Irish rainforest. 🌏

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1. Whenever I write about new fermentation technologies, that could greatly reduce the environmental impacts of our diets as well as the exploitation of animals, I run into the same set of objections. In this thread, I’ll take them one by one.🧵

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This week's column is about blatant protectionism, which seeks to defend one of the two most destructive industries on Earth (livestock farming) against competition from new technologies. Just like the fossil fuel lobby trying to shut down renewables. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The livestock lobby is waging war on ‘lab-grown meat’. This is why we can’t let them win | George Monbiotwww.theguardian.com These new proteins could be our best hope of averting catastrophe. But governments are trying to have them banned, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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"Animal farming ranks alongside fossil fuel production as one of the two most destructive industries on Earth. Feeding ourselves with animal products is a fantastically profligate & inefficient way of using land. Weaning ourselves off is as important as weaning ourselves off oil, gas and coal".

As symbolic of the wreck that is Killarney National Park as anything else you'll see: a dead and rotting native tree, engulfed by alien invasive rhododendron, and with rhodo even growing out of it. 🌎

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“There is no justification for the UK’s continued arms sales to Israel, yet somehow it continues.” Labour has allowed these illegal sales to continue, and is therefore complicit in the unfolding genocide in Gaza. www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...

British Foreign Office official resigns over UK 'complicity in war crimes' in Gazawww.middleeasteye.net Source tells MEE a senior official responded to resignation by emailing staff to promise a 'listening session'

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Listen, forget all those commercial 'wildflower seed' mixes. You'll have no idea where the seed is sourced, or whether it's even native. If you want a REAL wildlife garden, usually the very best route is to just let wild plants seed themselves in naturally. Trust in nature! 🌎

Don't you just love how fresh oak leaves are coloured red? Makes this wild young thing look like a natural flower arrangement, with not a flower in sight. 🌏

Here along the Atlantic, forest is rarely entirely closed canopy. Storms flatten trees, break branches, or other natural events occur to let light in, like this willow cracking. The sheer dynamism of such rainforest ecosystems really has to be experienced to be believed. 🌎

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The fresh smell of water mint is one of the joys of working in a wetland in our part of the world… at @SomersetWildlands.bsky.social Athelney it is spreading quickly from the ditches as rewilding progresses…. www.somersetwildlands.org

If you haven't yet done so, get hold of a copy of Vincent Hyland's 'Wild Derrynane', an utterly gorgeous celebration of the natural heritage of a very special part of Ireland. 🌎

Here and there, you'll still find traces of Ireland's rich rainforest past, as on this rocky flank by Puleen, Beara. These places are priceless biological treasure houses, yet are still treated as if they had zero worth. Our priorities are all wrong. 🌎

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New research suggests trees' bark plays a significant role in reducing atmospheric methane, a potent climate change gas This suggests trees' capacity to absorb greenhouse gases could be roughly 10% higher than previous estimates #climatesky

Tree bark removes atmospheric methane, study findsnews.mongabay.com New research suggests tree barks, along with their resident microbes, may play a significant role in reducing atmospheric methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Trees have long been recognized for their ab...

Hugely looking forward to talking rewilding + nature in Ireland with Hannah Quinn Mulligan and Danney Alvey of ReWild Wicklow this morning at Airfield Estate's NatureFest. Should be a really great discussion! 🌎

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1. How and why did the racist riots happen, and what do they tell us about where we might be heading? This thread concerns one part of the answer, the formation of what the historian Arno Meyer called a “crisis stratum” of disillusioned young men. 🧵

The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌎

Anyone recognise this dodgy looking character? 🤔

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Hello! I'm back having tried it here a few months ago, part of the great Xodus! I live in rural Ireland, write, take photos, re-wild a couple of acres and wander the land learning as I go. My first book, Solace, was published almost two years ago. Irish to the core but firstly I am an Earthling.

Ireland's Atlantic coast is pretty amazing. Imagine just how spectacular it would be with some of its lost natural rainforests back. 🌎

If this + 40,000 other such deaths isn't pure terrorism, what is? Israel is a terrorist state, armed and backed by the most powerful nations on Earth.

A female silver-washed fritillary at Lough Hyne, West Cork, the other day. The larvae of this species feed on violets, especially dog violet. If you want to help butterflies + other insects, *wild, native* plants are the way to go, NOT showy, nectar-laden exotics! #Rewilding 🌎

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Extreme record temperatures in Northern Canada in the Arctic circle: 36.3 celsius

A living sculpture, in the form of a wild alder on the shores of Lough Derg, Co. Tipperary. My kind of art. 🌎

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A shocking report about how big environmental NGOs have helped greenwash the most damaging of all food products - beef. They've collaborated with brutal conglomerates to spread disinformation. As I know to my cost, in taking on beef, you take on everyone. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

How the most powerful environmental groups help greenwash Big Meat’s climate impactwww.vox.com Factory farming is terrible for the environment. Environmentalists are sharply divided over what to do about it.

Restoring lost rainforests has really captured the public imagination in Britain, and is increasingly being translated into action. Here in Ireland, so far we haven't even proved capable of rectifying ecological collapse in our *minuscule* remnants. 🌏 bbc.com/news/article...

Pembrokeshire: Plan to restore Celtic rainforestsbbc.com Rainforests in wetter, cooler climates can help flood prevention and boost tourism, experts say.

Arbutus unedo is one of Ireland's 'Lusitanian species', also occuring in southern Europe, but not in between. An interesting aspect is that elsewhere, it's usually no more than a large bush, while here they can grow to around 10m high, like the one on the right in Killarney. 🌎

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Climbed up above Glendalough, Wicklow. So many deer and goats, & inexplicably sheep also allowed to join the overgrazing party. Bog flora definitely suffering badly because wet areas, streams so trampled. Zero tree regrowth so bracken owns dryer areas. >>

The Pantanal, the largest wetland on Earth, stretching across Brazil, Paraguay, + Bolivia, is now at risk from 'progress'. Being home to a great wealth of biodiversity like jaguars, and a massive carbon sink, seems not to count. Is nothing sacred at all? 🌎 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Losing Noah’s Ark’: Brazil’s plan to turn the Pantanal into waterway threatens world’s biggest wetlandwww.theguardian.com Hidrovia project to dredge Paraguay River and build ports may destroy vast biodiversity and refuge of jaguars, giant otters and armadillos – and an age-old riverine way of life

Flowering tutsan, glistening with dew in the woods. This is the largest of the St. John's worts (Hypericaceae). Once fertilised, these will turn into red and then black berries, much loved by birds and other animals, which spread the seed far and wide. 🌎