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The area of national forest estate in Ireland has increased to approximately 700,000 hectares as a result of a significant increase in private forest development in the mid-1980s, with the introduction of grant schemes funded by the EU aimed at encouraging private land owners, mainly farmers, to become involved in forestry.
(2008). Freshwater ecoregions of the world: A new map of biogeographic units for freshwater biodiversity conservation. BioScience 58:403-414, . Spalding, Mark D., Helen E. Fox, Gerald R. Allen, Nick Davidson et al. "Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas".
These woodlands are also variously referred to as Atlantic rainforest, Upland Oakwoods, Atlantic Oakwoods or Western Oakwoods. Today, the Celtic Rainforest exists as small fragments of the temperate rainforest that once covered much of Ireland and the west coast of Great Britain. The majority of these fragments occur on steep-sided slopes above ...
Forests and woodlands of the Republic of Ireland (1 C, 48 P) Pages in category "Forests and woodlands of Ireland" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Clearing of forests began in the Neolithic Age and accelerated following the Tudor Conquest, resulting in forest cover of only 1% by the start of the twentieth century. [51] As of 2017, total tree cover in the Republic of Ireland stood at 11% of land area [ 52 ] but the figure for native forest stood at just 2% in 2018, the third lowest in ...
Mullaghmeen (Irish: Mullach Mín, meaning 'smooth summit'), [2] at 258 metres (846 ft), is the county top for Westmeath in Ireland, and is the lowest county top in Ireland. [1] [3] Mullaghmeen is located in the Mullaghmeen Forest, known for having the largest planted beech forest in Europe.
Portions of western Ireland and Scotland are in the North Atlantic moist mixed forests ecoregion, and the Scottish Highlands are in the Caledonian forest ecoregion. Southeastern and south-central England are in the English Lowlands beech forests ecoregion.
Pages in category "Forests and woodlands of the Republic of Ireland" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .