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Eoghan Daltun 🌍

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍

@IrishRainforest

Author of award-winning bestseller An Irish Atlantic Rainforest. 17 years living with 73 acres of wildland. MOVED TO BLUESKY: @irishrainforest.bsky.social

Beara, West Cork

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Joined January 2017

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Sep 2, 2024
After 2 years of work, I've finally taken delivery of an actual printed copy of my second book 'The Magic of an Irish Rainforest: A Visual Journey'. I've done my best to capture the essence of these priceless, but mostly dying, ecosystems, and am over the moon with the results.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Nov 29, 2024
"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project." Read that again: **116** times. Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland project
From scotsman.com
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Oct 15, 2024
Walking around Belfast, you're left in zero doubt as to whether a community identifies first as British or Irish by the pro-Israeli or Palestinian symbolism everywhere. How our past still so often shapes where our sympathies lie: with the oppressor, or the oppressed.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Feb 13, 2023
It was both a pleasure and an honour to restore Seamus Murphy's sublime piece 'Dreamline' in Cork Public Museum last week. Murphy was, beyond any doubt, Ireland's most important sculptor of the 20th century.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Sep 25, 2024
A good example of the tokenism that so often passes for 'action' on biodiversity collapse: a 'bug hotel', plonked in a garden of a) Sterile lawns b) Alien plants It's shocking, I know, but what wildlife *really* needs is actual wild, natural HABITAT.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Nov 18, 2024
An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies. Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, + that rewilding reverses nature loss.
‘A special place’: Guardian readers’ generosity helps to save rewilded farm
From theguardian.com
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Feb 18, 2024
Bono is such a total fraud, acting the great rebel standing up for the underdog and "freedom". But when it comes to the murder of 12,000 defenceless children by US bombs? Ethnic cleansing? Genocide? Silence.
NEXTA
@nexta_tv
Feb 18, 2024
#U2 frontman Bono chanted Alexei #Navalny's name with the audience during his concert in Las Vegas "Putin would never ever say his name. So I thought tonight people who believe in freedom must say his name. Not just remember it, but say it."
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Oct 14, 2022
What might ambitious, exciting and inspiring rewilding really look like in Ireland? I found out in the Scottish Highlands last weekend, beyond all my imaginings.
Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Oct 1, 2021
Uragh, an ancient rainforest by the shores of Lough Inchiquin, on the Kerry side of the Beara Peninsula. This is probably as close as you'll get to primeval wildwood in Ireland, an extremely rare and precious thing (<0.25% of total land area).
Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Aug 18, 2024
What better symbol of late-stage capitalism and gross, vulgar excess than the cruise ship?
The Figen
@TheFigen_
Aug 16, 2024
The world's largest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, makes its grand entrance into the Port of Miami.
Hesh
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Jun 14, 2022
Yesterday near Glenflesk, Kerry: another roadside bank annihilated with herbicide. In contrast my own place, bursting with wildflowers, pollinators and other life. We're in the midst of a global mass extinction event. Our relentless and suicidal war on nature has to stop.
Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Aug 26, 2022
Reenadina wood in Killarney National Park. The largest remaining yew forest in Europe, it has existed for at least 3,000 years. It's a unique and wondrous place, with ancient trees whose amazing shapes take the breath away...
Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Jul 28, 2024
Brazil proposes plan to tax super-rich to tackle climate crisis. Crucially, it would be *global*, thereby preventing billionaires from simply moving their wealth to alternative jurisdictions. Way more radical thinking like this, please!!
theguardian.com
‘Morally, nobody’s against it’: Brazil’s radical plan to tax global super-rich to tackle climate...
A 2% global levy would affect about 100 super-rich families, says the country’s climate chief, but the $250bn raised could be transformative
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@IrishRainforest
Oct 6, 2023
Out of 240 nations and states on Earth, Ireland is THIRTEENTH FROM THE BOTTOM for nature. And it shouldn't be any surprise: our countryside is an endless expanse of virtually lifeless fields, sheep-shorn uplands + sitka deadzones. It's *long* past time for change. #Rewilding
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