Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
Author of award-winning bestseller An Irish Atlantic Rainforest. Over 16 years living with 73 acres of wildland in Beara, West Cork. #Rewilding.
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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. 🌎
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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Today in Bantry Bay and in a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) around Garinish Island, two under 18m vessels have been pair trawling.
While they are most likely fishing for sprat, and that's not illegal for these trawlers, we have 3 key questions for the government ...
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While they are most likely fishing for sprat, and that's not illegal for these trawlers, we have 3 key questions for the government ...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Today in Bantry Bay and in a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) around Garinish Island, two under 18m vessels have been pair trawling.
While they are most likely fishing for sprat, and that's not illegal for these trawlers, we have 3 key questions for the government ...
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While they are most likely fishing for sprat, and that's not illegal for these trawlers, we have 3 key questions for the government ...
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This bears repeating daily: We have been indoctrinated into believing that capitalism is inherently rational, when it is not. Homo economicus never existed.
There are a lot of reasons for the failure of this narrative when it runs up against reality, but I think a lot of it is that we’ve been indoctrinated into this notion that capitalism is somehow inherently rational, which it is not
December 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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"There's this common misconception that ecologists like me might see deer as a problem, but that's not the case at all."
Join Sarah Watts, on a journey across Corrour Estate, as she emphasises the crucial role of deer and those who manage them.
www.scotlandbigpicture.com/rewilding-st...
Join Sarah Watts, on a journey across Corrour Estate, as she emphasises the crucial role of deer and those who manage them.
www.scotlandbigpicture.com/rewilding-st...
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
"There's this common misconception that ecologists like me might see deer as a problem, but that's not the case at all."
Join Sarah Watts, on a journey across Corrour Estate, as she emphasises the crucial role of deer and those who manage them.
www.scotlandbigpicture.com/rewilding-st...
Join Sarah Watts, on a journey across Corrour Estate, as she emphasises the crucial role of deer and those who manage them.
www.scotlandbigpicture.com/rewilding-st...
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Min Jack Chambers claim: “number of judicial reviews rapidly growing. 2024 saw 43% increase on 2023, & 2025 a further 30% increase in cases in Court”
Factcheck “number of JR decreasing year on year..members of public to take 40% fewer in 2025 & overall JRs will be 15% lower this year”
links below
Factcheck “number of JR decreasing year on year..members of public to take 40% fewer in 2025 & overall JRs will be 15% lower this year”
links below
December 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Min Jack Chambers claim: “number of judicial reviews rapidly growing. 2024 saw 43% increase on 2023, & 2025 a further 30% increase in cases in Court”
Factcheck “number of JR decreasing year on year..members of public to take 40% fewer in 2025 & overall JRs will be 15% lower this year”
links below
Factcheck “number of JR decreasing year on year..members of public to take 40% fewer in 2025 & overall JRs will be 15% lower this year”
links below
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If we deregulate and deregulate eventually the market will be free to fix everything. We know it works because we have such great examples like the tulip bubble or the 30's stock market bubble or the dot.com bubble or the housing bubble and now the AI bubble. All these things ended fantastically 🤦🤦
December 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
If we deregulate and deregulate eventually the market will be free to fix everything. We know it works because we have such great examples like the tulip bubble or the 30's stock market bubble or the dot.com bubble or the housing bubble and now the AI bubble. All these things ended fantastically 🤦🤦
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Same in the UK, where environmental regulations are scapegoated for blocking housing — meanwhile developers are sitting on empty houses because supplying enough for people to live in would bring prices (and profits) down.
This has *nothing* to do with judicial reviews preventing housing projects.
It's down to government ideology, ie that the private market is the solution to the housing shortage, when all past experience shows that only *public* housing will solve it.
It's down to government ideology, ie that the private market is the solution to the housing shortage, when all past experience shows that only *public* housing will solve it.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Same in the UK, where environmental regulations are scapegoated for blocking housing — meanwhile developers are sitting on empty houses because supplying enough for people to live in would bring prices (and profits) down.
Translation: let's flush what's left of our natural heritage down the toilet, to allow the government to hide its direct responsibility for the housing crisis, and to allow rich developers to keep on getting richer.
December 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Translation: let's flush what's left of our natural heritage down the toilet, to allow the government to hide its direct responsibility for the housing crisis, and to allow rich developers to keep on getting richer.
This has *nothing* to do with judicial reviews preventing housing projects.
It's down to government ideology, ie that the private market is the solution to the housing shortage, when all past experience shows that only *public* housing will solve it.
It's down to government ideology, ie that the private market is the solution to the housing shortage, when all past experience shows that only *public* housing will solve it.
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This has *nothing* to do with judicial reviews preventing housing projects.
It's down to government ideology, ie that the private market is the solution to the housing shortage, when all past experience shows that only *public* housing will solve it.
It's down to government ideology, ie that the private market is the solution to the housing shortage, when all past experience shows that only *public* housing will solve it.
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NO, don't let them do this
Under the guise of 'speeding the delivery of essential infrastructure', the government is going to basically remove the option of taking judicial reviews.
Very often, this is the only legal route communities have to defend local ecosystems against being destroyed.
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Very often, this is the only legal route communities have to defend local ecosystems against being destroyed.
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Govt to introduce legislation to fast-track key projects
The Government is set to introduce emergency legislation to fast-track key projects through the planning process under a plan Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers will outline to the Cabinet.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
NO, don't let them do this
Kerry slug, native only to some parts of western Ireland, Spain, and Portugal, so one of our Lusitanian species.
Evidence that the biological colonisation of Ireland was largely from a western, Iberian origin? Or just later introductions by prehistoric people?
Truth is, we still don't know.
Evidence that the biological colonisation of Ireland was largely from a western, Iberian origin? Or just later introductions by prehistoric people?
Truth is, we still don't know.
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Kerry slug, native only to some parts of western Ireland, Spain, and Portugal, so one of our Lusitanian species.
Evidence that the biological colonisation of Ireland was largely from a western, Iberian origin? Or just later introductions by prehistoric people?
Truth is, we still don't know.
Evidence that the biological colonisation of Ireland was largely from a western, Iberian origin? Or just later introductions by prehistoric people?
Truth is, we still don't know.
Under the guise of 'speeding the delivery of essential infrastructure', the government is going to basically remove the option of taking judicial reviews.
Very often, this is the only legal route communities have to defend local ecosystems against being destroyed.
share.google/0844XAjcdexK...
Very often, this is the only legal route communities have to defend local ecosystems against being destroyed.
share.google/0844XAjcdexK...
Govt to introduce legislation to fast-track key projects
The Government is set to introduce emergency legislation to fast-track key projects through the planning process under a plan Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers will outline to the Cabinet.
share.google
December 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Under the guise of 'speeding the delivery of essential infrastructure', the government is going to basically remove the option of taking judicial reviews.
Very often, this is the only legal route communities have to defend local ecosystems against being destroyed.
share.google/0844XAjcdexK...
Very often, this is the only legal route communities have to defend local ecosystems against being destroyed.
share.google/0844XAjcdexK...
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Very proud to be Colombian right now! 🇨🇴 I hope all neighboring countries follow suit soon! news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon
Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory, according to a Nov. 13 statement by its environment ministry. Ac...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Very proud to be Colombian right now! 🇨🇴 I hope all neighboring countries follow suit soon! news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch.
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate
At a time of crisis, co-operation is the only way to resolve the climate collective-action problem
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December 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch.
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
"'Soilsmology': a non-invasive technique that measures soil health. Together with scientists, researchers, & farmers working on three continents, we are aiming to transform how we map the complex & vital ecosystem that underpins global food security & climate resilience."
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This is turning into one of the biggest Zoom meetings since the pandemic. Don't forget to register in advance if you want to join. 1400 GMT *this Friday* (December 5th): us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und...
We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"'Soilsmology': a non-invasive technique that measures soil health. Together with scientists, researchers, & farmers working on three continents, we are aiming to transform how we map the complex & vital ecosystem that underpins global food security & climate resilience."
I've just registered!!
I've just registered!!
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Reminds me a bit of this photo: A forest spirit in the trees, late September on the island of Usedom.
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Reminds me a bit of this photo: A forest spirit in the trees, late September on the island of Usedom.
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While welcoming the ban on boats over 18m long inside 6 miles, we don't believe it'll protect sprat populations, or the ecosystems that depend on them.
Find out why in this great @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social webinar with our Dolf D'hondt and the IWT's Grace Carr.
youtu.be/o1HbD934bjM?...
Find out why in this great @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social webinar with our Dolf D'hondt and the IWT's Grace Carr.
youtu.be/o1HbD934bjM?...
IWT Webinar: Trawling & Sprat Protection in Ireland’s Inshore Area
YouTube video by Irish Wildlife Trust
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December 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
While welcoming the ban on boats over 18m long inside 6 miles, we don't believe it'll protect sprat populations, or the ecosystems that depend on them.
Find out why in this great @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social webinar with our Dolf D'hondt and the IWT's Grace Carr.
youtu.be/o1HbD934bjM?...
Find out why in this great @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social webinar with our Dolf D'hondt and the IWT's Grace Carr.
youtu.be/o1HbD934bjM?...
Just after a heavy shower, the sun lights up an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
December 2, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Just after a heavy shower, the sun lights up an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
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Rewilding is simply the best.
When people care for nature, nature gives back.
No gadgets, no billionaires. Just people letting nature fix everything money destroyed.
When people care for nature, nature gives back.
No gadgets, no billionaires. Just people letting nature fix everything money destroyed.
We Tried a Different Reforestation Method — With Incredible Results
YouTube video by Ecosia
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December 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Rewilding is simply the best.
When people care for nature, nature gives back.
No gadgets, no billionaires. Just people letting nature fix everything money destroyed.
When people care for nature, nature gives back.
No gadgets, no billionaires. Just people letting nature fix everything money destroyed.
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It's great how the ecological life of a tree can be as important as its biological life...
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It's great how the ecological life of a tree can be as important as its biological life...
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The evidence required to justify renewal of the derogation simply does not exist. It would be deeply unfair to farmers, as it locks them into a high-input, high-cost system that is environmentally unsustainable & increasingly incompatible with EU law, setting them up for a forced adjustment later.
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The evidence required to justify renewal of the derogation simply does not exist. It would be deeply unfair to farmers, as it locks them into a high-input, high-cost system that is environmentally unsustainable & increasingly incompatible with EU law, setting them up for a forced adjustment later.
I never noticed this old tree stump in the woods until the other day.
But that's how it is here. Even after getting on for 17 years living with a wild rainforest ecosystem, I still frequently make new discoveries.
And I suspect it will always be so, for the rest of my days.
But that's how it is here. Even after getting on for 17 years living with a wild rainforest ecosystem, I still frequently make new discoveries.
And I suspect it will always be so, for the rest of my days.
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I never noticed this old tree stump in the woods until the other day.
But that's how it is here. Even after getting on for 17 years living with a wild rainforest ecosystem, I still frequently make new discoveries.
And I suspect it will always be so, for the rest of my days.
But that's how it is here. Even after getting on for 17 years living with a wild rainforest ecosystem, I still frequently make new discoveries.
And I suspect it will always be so, for the rest of my days.
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Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
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Coming soon, my new book; Eat The Planet Well
youtube.com/shorts/zzoQJ...
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Eat the Planet Well: my new book, coming soon.
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
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November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Coming soon, my new book; Eat The Planet Well
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Agree or disagree?
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Agree or disagree?