Native Woodland Trust

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A brilliant day at Ardan Wood 🌳 With help from the 1st & 10th Scout Group Mullingar and our Westmeath branch, we planted around 320 oak trees in our lower meadow Thanks to everyone who helped our woodland spread💚

A wet but historic conservation action day at Bevans’ Wood with the West Wicklow Environmental Network🌧️ Volunteers freed young trees from deer guards and continued vital repairs to the 1990s deer fence — essential work for woodland recovery and making rewilding possible!

A brilliant few weeks working with the Love Nature League at St. Mary’s SNS, just minutes from Blessington Wood (Wicklow)🌳 From track & sign and mindfulness to planting 20 native trees Inspired by their care, curiosity, and a €200 fundraiser for their local woodland🙏

A great start to the year at our Lecarrow reserve 🌱 Volunteers planted a new hedgerow along our access road and interplanted last year’s trees. Busy weeks ahead in our nursery! Get involved: aaron.gallagher@nativewoodlandtrust.ie

Uisce Eireann's planning application to run a 172km pipeline from Parteen basin near Birdhill, Co Tipperary to Peamount in Co Dublin was submitted last year.DEADLINE for submissions/objections 25th February 2026.This will affect the entire Shannon Estuary. #Limerick,#nature,

Saturday's conservation action day at Farnaght Wood with volunteers from our Leitrim Branch and Leitrim Environmental Network🌳 Nature trail work, removal of old planting guards, and new trail cameras installed after last year’s first red squirrel sighting! #Fornatureinperpetuity

We are hosting a tree planting day at our Lecarrow Reserve next Saturday the 24th from 10:30 AM. If you are keen to join us, RSVP by emailing us at aaron.gallagher@nativewoodlandtrust.ie 🌳

Sapling liberation! Amazing volunteers from our Wicklow branch spent today exhuming hundreds saplings bound for the expansion fields overlooking their parents at Ardan Wood, Westmeath. Such hard work, love and care have been put into them by volunteers working together across IRL

A wintery woodland wander at Ballinakelly Wood, Co. Carlow🌳After a year of volunteer work and ecological study — supported by @CommunityFound — our Carlow Branch explored the findings of the woodland’s first Community Biodiversity Action Plan #ForNatureandCommunityinPerpetuity

Installed a new educational sign at Blessington Wood, Co. Wicklow today🌳 It tells the story of native woodland rehabilitation and the role of local volunteers in caring for it in perpetuity. With thanks to Blessington & District Credit Union!

A productive day at Coill na Luise reserve on Paddock Hill near Laragh 🌳 With our Wicklow branch & @ReWildWicklow Removing deer guards from maturing saplings grown from local seed, supporting fast-growing birch, and repairing deer fencing #NativeWoodlandINPROGRESS⏳

A great day at Lecarrow Reserve! We built new air pots, took hardwood elder & willow cuttings, cleared vegetation from young trees, and marked trail-side trees to be moved & replanted in the new year. Want to get involved? DM us or email aaron.gallagher@nativewoodlandtrust.ie 🌱

Yet more coverage from a bumper weekend of conservation action - with our wonderful Wicklow Branch of volunteers teaming up with @ReWildWicklow for Deer Fence Repair at Bevans' Wood near Valleymount 💪🦌

A huge thanks to our Wicklow volunteers & ReWild Wicklow for joining us at our Blessington Reserve! 🌿 We cleared the remaining buddleia on site, checked our hedgerow trees, secured guards/stakes & even freed some thriving wych elms grown from Wych Hunt seed. 🌱💚

Last week @TBWA_Ireland joined us for a woodland seed collection at Ballinakelly Wood in Co Carlow Helping sow the next generation of mighty oaks🐿️Building teams, repairing our planet, and enjoying time AFK among colleagues and trees🌳 Partner with NWT: tinyurl.com/3d3e6sp8

Huge thanks to our volunteers who braved the rain at our Lecarrow nursery! 🌧️🌿 We installed our new polytunnel, prepped the site, set up potting tables, cleared hedgerows, and maintained woodland paths. Want to help? DM us or email aaron.gallagher@nativewoodlandtrust.ie 💚

A brilliant day at Ballinakelly Wood 🌱 Volunteers from our Carlow Branch helped build two new growing beds, ready for this year’s crop! We’ve collected thousands of seeds from cherry, hazel, oak, yew & hawthorn — and some will now be grown right here under their parent trees💚

Exciting progress at Ballinakelly Wood! Our volunteers kicked off a new project building raised beds to grow trees from seeds collected in the woodland. Cherry laurel cleared, first bed built, second nearly done! Join us next time — email aaron.gallagher@nativewoodlandtrust.ie 🌳

Sowing the seeds of legendary Irish trees Ancient Hawthorn from Farnaght Wood Veteran Yew from Ballinakelly Wood Sown this weekend at our Trooperstown Nursery by Wicklow volunteers & @GaisceAward student 1,000+ seeds stratifying — future trees for expanding their parent woods💚