100 Million Trees Project continues to create more mini Irish forests

About this episode

The episode discusses the 100 Million Trees Project, a community-driven initiative aimed at planting 100 million native Irish trees across Ireland to combat environmental damage.

The 100 Million Trees Project is a national Not-for-Profit initiative being run by Richard, David and Tina Mulcahy. This positive project aims to see the planting of 100 million native Irish trees across the island of Ireland over the next decade, as a community-driven initiative to reverse the immense environmental damage caused by the reduction of forests worldwide and the loss of huge areas of biodiversity. As the project works in half acre spaces, it means it is quite flexible and could be done in a variety of places. As you go around Ireland there are many possible places where it could take place somewhere near you, and therefore is definitely worth looking at. The great thing about tree planting is that it is very self empowering as it enables you to do something to make a difference, and very quickly too. Below are more details and we plan to do a more in detail follow up piece about their progress too. 100 Million Trees for Ireland The project's ambitious aim will be achieved through densely planting between 1000 and 2,500 native Irish trees at a time across small areas of land using 'the Miyawaki method'. By planting excess trees together these grow much faster, much…

Topics covered

• environment
• tree planting
• biodiversity
• community initiative
• sustainability

Keywords

• 100 Million Trees Project
• native Irish trees
• environmental damage
• biodiversity
• Miyawaki method

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: 100 Million Trees Project

Places: Ireland

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