Eoghan Daltun 🌍

I'm *wildly* excited to announce that my new book, 'Setting the Land Free – Visions of a Rewilded Ireland', will be published by Hachette on 27 August. We have a stark choice re our collapsing nature: the usual timid, token gestures, or real, gutsy ambition. This book makes the case for the latter.

Absolutely brilliant to see. Yet fossil fuel use and emissions are STILL increasing, because capitalist economies require endless growth. On a finite planet, that can only end one way. Without system change, much of our efforts are little more than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Here in Glengarriff, previous lower browsing levels allowed a very uniform subcanopy of holly to develop beneath old oaks. There's no ground flora, due to little light penetration, and ever increasing invasive sika deer. Natural predators would greatly help return needed balance to ecosystems.

@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @micheal-martin.bsky.social It's beyond time the EU stops trading with isreal.

Benedict Cumberbatch presents How to Live on Earth. “Living on Mars would be horrible. Let’s try to live on Earth.”

What can we do? Stop using Google Use alternative browsers like Ecosia Browser The browser that funds tree planting Be climate active while you browse www.ecosia.org/browser

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Indeed. The same is true for Ireland where @irishrainforest.bsky.social has been calling for a complete overhaul of financial incentives for farmers. Farmers in Ireland are PAID with taxpayer money to farm with loss making sheep. The exact sheep destroying Irish forests every single day.

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

Talking about aspen here, folks!

We're surrounded by Aspen here at the cottage in Mayo. Hard to tell what's rain & what's leaves some nights!

The Casuarina on the riverbanks and bays of D’harawal Country (NSW south coast) is the Grandmother Tree: in the Dreaming story, older women who made string from its needles became these trees, and the wind rustling their needles is the chatter of grandmothers Such knowledge connects you to place.

Plus, the biggest living organism on Earth is an aspen. Such a very special tree.

Bird flu came out of industrial poultry farming, and has been devastating wild bird populations ever since. Via industrial fur farming, it now threatens to do the same to us. Animal farming is one of the greatest dangers to life on Earth.

In Irish, aspen is 'crann creathach' – trembling tree – because of how its leaves quiver and rustle in the wind. One of the most palatable tree species to deer, sheep, etc, its very distinctive, evocative sound is sadly now uncommon in Ireland.

Great thread and debate. land sparing/sharing, rewilding must be balanced with farming production while reducing food import dependency to support national resilience. Dietary shift has to be a big part of this

I have refused many invitations to be interviewed by Piers Morgan over the years. This time I made an exception, on the condition that it be one-on-one, not a scream fest, and that it actually be about the book Astra and I wrote. It was... an experience. youtu.be/SMFQBQx-qSU

The REWILDING movement!!

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Dom Phillips on “fascist” Bolsonaro and his “more extreme” sons. I look back on WhatsApp messages of the murdered British journalist from the last time a member of Bolsonaro family led in Brazil’s presidential election. Prescient then, pertinent today. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Totally agree - and a compromise would mean some proportion of the land for nature. We need food, so we need nature friendly farming, but we also need some land that is not farmed. We expect it of other countries so why not us. :)

and to all of creation.

Same in the USA

This is a tremendous although horrifying report Make sure to watch

The compromise is having farmland to provide food, and rewilded areas for nature. As things stand, it's only the first and none of the second. But you think that's compromise? Nature would disagree.

South Terrace, Cork city centre: polypody, heart's tongue and maidenhair spleenwort ferns spring from a damp old brick wall. If your eyes are open to it, we're surrounded by the relics of our lost natural rainforest heritage.

The equivalent of every soul in the towns of Athlone, Portlaoise, Kenmare and then some combined being wiped out. Imagine the reaction if so many were murdered in a terrorist attack. Yet fossil fuels continue to be massively subsidised, and emissions to rise, because NOTHING must limit profit.

🍄 Fungi are some of the most important organisms in our woodlands, recycling nutrients and supporting healthy ecosystems. Our fungal forays take place this weekend at Camcor-Forelacka Wood and Ballinakelly Wood, while Devil's Glen is already fully booked. 🌳

🎯 Ditto here in Wales, especially when highlighting our lifeless uplands…

I think a big problem is that Joe Public just doesn’t understand that landscapes like Dartmoor and the Brecon Beacons aren’t natural- and they don’t see anything lacking.

Ever feel like you're actually living that nightmare in which you open your mouth to cry out, but no sound comes? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Beautiful story by Nicola Davis here, heart-breaking to recognise again the wonders we are losing to wanton planetary destruction in the name of economic “growth” www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Longyearbyen is warming at between 5 & 7 times the world’s average rate We're getting a glimpse of the chaos to come if the world does not act now on climate change share.google/Fxd4dhTvAVlD...

Most interviews about fascism don’t end with me almost crying about the wonders of Pacific wild salmon, but somehow this one did. One of the best conversations I’ve had on tour so far. Thank you Oli Dugmore and The Exchange. @newstatesman1913.bsky.social youtu.be/JdfMaPrMBW4

Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals! It's not just about giving destructive industries what they want, important as this is. The likes of Trump and Bolsonaro will kill the planet out of a vengeful desire to hurt. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Despite arbutus fruit covering the ground in parts of Glengarriff Nature Reserve, little regeneration results due to invasive sika deer. Sourcing wild-shot venison helps our native ecosystems. It's also delicious, and unlike most other meat is free of chemicals, antibiotics or welfare issues.

Even if over 323,000 Irish households weren't in arrears with their electricity bills (they are), this would be bonkers.

"What the UK Is Doing to Pro-Palestine Novelist Sally Rooney Is an Act of Orwellian Villainy"

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

Far Right extremists, Reform UK, constantly demonstrate their ignorance. Replace Muslim with Catholic & read their statement. The sad thing is that in the 16th & 17th C this was exactly how Catholics were spoken of. 40% of Irish died as a result. This is the language of religious war & instigation.

The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌍

One of the easiest ways to ensure homes for insects is to avoid being too tidy in gardens and green spaces. Letting a patch of grass grow long (good for nesting bumblebees), leaving dead stems where they are over winter, and having a wild corner will all help boost insect populations 🐝

“I have worked on the AMOC for more than 30 years. I’m increasingly worried”, states PIKs @rahmstorf.bsky.social. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) carries warm water northward. #climatechange is putting this ocean circulation at risk. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNOS...