Ancient Ireland was around 80% forest with the rest made up of the likes of bogs. Today, that figure is a paltry 1% to 1.5%, rewilding campaigner Eoghan Daltun said.
Minister Eamon Ryan has told the second annual DCU Centre for Climate and Society conference that we need to be willing to admit mistakes, and go back and accelerate in the direction we need to go, in order to address climate change.
Irish activists, environmentalists, thinkers and doers on the actions and initiatives that give them hope for our future on planet Earth. Illustrations by Anne O'Hara