Cillian Lohan has been elected as the president of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) Civil Society Organisations’ Group. He will take office in the course of the Committee’s renewal in October 2025.
Link to full article here
For more information on Cillian’s work on the EESC visit this link!
Biofest 2025 May 17th -18th
BioFest – the independent community festival in West Cork which celebrates biodiversity, through workshops and events with the people who are working for a better future. BioFest is delivered through the collaborative efforts and resources of its leading partners the Green Economy Foundation and CECAS at Myross Wood House. BioFest is funded by the IEN (The Irish Environmental Network) and the NPWS (National Parks and Wildlife Service) and takes place during Ireland’s Biodiversity Week.
For more information
Instagram – @biofestwestcork
Facebook – BioFest West Cork
All events are free but spaces are limited so please sign up via tickettailor.com/events/biofestwestcork
A group of students from Bavaria took part in a 4 day education programme funded by Erasmus. They were hosted at CECAS and Pair na Tobair where they participated in a varied programme learning and assisting with tree planting, woodland maintenance, ecological monitoring, tree nurseries, public participation, climate action, biodiversity, sustainability and the environment.
It’s a new beginning for Green Economy Foundation. We have moved our premises from Manch Estate to Myross Wood in Leap Co. Cork with CECAS (the centre of excellence for climate action and sustainability) run by Green Skibbereen.
From here, we are still involved in advocacy work at a national and international level, still running our projects(primarily Trees on the Land and the Tobago Project) and introducing new ones (West Cork Donut Economics Network) whilst helping to restore and develop the native woodlands of Myross. Our education programme has shifted from working with school groups to working with voluntary groups, corporate organisations and community-based projects, planting trees, developing biodiversity plans, advising, collaborating with a wide range of community groups and providing education in native woodlands, biodiversity, sustainability and the environment.
The Irish Times acknowledges the work of Imogen Rabone and her accomplishment of organising and inspiring the planting of over 1,000,000 native trees throughout Ireland. It also details the new project in conjunction with Self Help Africa planting a further million trees in Africa.
What a busy winter and spring season it has been at Manch! Work teams and volunteers from a number of local, national and international businesses have been visiting Manch to help with maintenance and tree planting work throughout the season.
We have been working to plant trees into some areas of the older woods that have been badly damaged by storms in the last few years. Volunteers have done great work clearing undergrowth, finding and marking natural regeneration and planting new young trees where they are needed.
Visitors enjoyed guided walks of the woods, talks on the Manch Story and management of the estate, picnic lunches in the working yard and plenty of hard work planting trees in the fresh air. The volunteer days are managed and hosted by Nikki Keeling who does a brilliant job looking after the education centre at Manch and passing on her great knowledge and passion for the woods.
Photographs and more detail about the brilliant sponsors supporting the work at Manch coming soon.
The team at Trees on the Land would like to thank everyone who took part planting trees on and around Saturday 9th February 2019.
After a very busy production and distribution phase early in the year, more than 140,000 trees were distributed for planting across the 32 counties of Ireland and Northern Ireland during February.
Just over 700 landowners planted trees this year with farmers, smallholders, councils, community groups, sports clubs, schools, colleges and many other landowners accommodating trees. Many different projects were undertaken including the planting of small woodlands, hedges, coppices, shelter belts, orchards, agroforestry, reforestation and other landscape planting work.
Huge thanks to all of the collection points, nurseries, volunteers, drivers and other helpers who worked so hard to get trees out to everyone and special thanks, as always, to those who hosted the collection points.
Work is now starting for the 2020 planting project which will take place on Saturday 15th February.
For all project information please see www.treesontheland.com and all enquiries to info [at] treesontheland.com
European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018
Monday 29th October 2018
11am – 4pm
at The Manch Project
Manch Estate, Ballineen, Co. Cork.
Eircode: P47NW62
To celebrate the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, we’re hosting a day of walks, talks and workshops at our Manch headquarters. Set in over 300 acres of woodland, the Manch project is the base for all of our work at the Green Economy Foundation.
A full schedule of the day’s events will be published here shortly.
All welcome – Entrance is Free – No dogs please.
For more information please click HERE.
Contact: Nikki Keeling – 087 791 6919