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Visitor numbers at some of Ireland’s most popular forests tripled after the pandemic broke last year.
The State-owned forestry agency Coillte has today published its list of the top ten most popular forests on its books.
The agency said visits to the forests it owns around the country jumped by nearly 40% over lockdown – with over 2.2 million people visiting between March and December.
The agency also compared visitor numbers in February, the month before lockdown was first introduced, with those in December, and found that forest parks in Dublin and Monaghan doubled.
Meanwhile, visitors to Donadea in County Kildare and Curragh Chase in Limerick tripled over the same period.
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L-RL: Pat Neville of Coillte; Donal Whelan, ITGA; Donal Magner, editor of the Forestry Yearbook; Senator Pippa Hackett, Minister of State for Forestry; Mechteld Schuller, ITGA; and Brendan Lacey, ITGA chairman
The Irish Timber Growers Association (ITGA) 2021 Forestry and Timber Yearbook was launched this week by Minister with responsibility for Forestry at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett.
In welcoming the yearbook publication, its 32nd edition, the minister said:
“The yearbook continues to reflect the importance of the sector, its economic and environmental significance and provides the sector with important reference material and is an ideal compendium of information for growers and the industry.”