Finnian’s Week with Trees for Life
Finnian Flood, Hometree’s Community Facilitator and Restoration Ranger, recently spent a week with Trees for Life, a registered charity working to rewild the Scottish Highlands.
I spent a fantastic week with Trees for Life in their Glen Affric project. I travelled to Scotland to take part in a volunteer week, with the aim of learning about their restoration practices, how they involve volunteers, and how we might improve our own volunteer offerings at Hometree.
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Community Conversations: Shaping Ireland’s Nature Restoration Plan
With nature under increasing pressure, the new EU Nature Restoration Law (NRL) sets out an ambitious target: to restore at least 20% of our land and sea areas by 2030. Meeting this challenge will take more than policy, it will take people, communities, and meaningful dialogue. Use your voice and join the conversation!
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Involving Community in Deep Mapping
Deep Mapping is the gathering of local knowledge, values, perceptions and visions and including those as valuable layers to develop a more complete picture of a place. Hometree has begun this process in two communities recently.
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Hometree’s Journey in Community Engagement: Supporting Ireland’s Green Future
Over the past few months, we’ve been busy meeting with landowners and responding to an overwhelming number of queries following our recent Woodland Creation and Protection support campaign. The response from landowners and farmers across Ireland has been fantastic, filling us with optimism about Ireland’s green future.
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