Oisín O'Neill

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171 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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The Claire Byrne Show · A call for a timber industry book to be removed from schools · 23 Apr 2026 podcast
Like I said, this model was developed in Central Europe.
It's no longer used there because of how ecologically devastating it is.
We want to see a transition to a continuous cover, a close to nature forestry model.
We want funding to train foresters to do this.
And you said there that the forest industry said that
because of this silica spruce model that we have that allows us to have native woodlands.
We have the lowest level of native woodland cover in all of Europe.
Only 0.6% of Ireland is national park.
We have public lands that are not being managed for the public, that are not being managed for the people.
We want public lands to be managed for nature, to protect nature, which in turn will give us clean water, flood mitigation.
We want people to be able to coexist with nature, look towards a future where we can live in balance with nature.
No one who looks at this forestry model that we currently have will tell you that this is in balance with nature.
It's hugely damaging and people in Ireland are grieving that we have no native woodlands.
at school level so clearly it was the schools themselves that decided to accept and distribute this um this book or this booklet well my understanding was distributed to the schools and then the schools can either accept the book or throw it in the bin and i understand the department is is making they don't want to be linked with this and it definitely came out of the blue um
But yeah, it was up to the schools and I would hope that many of the schools would want their children to have a balanced understanding of nature and would not be letting this industry aligned messaging into their schools.
Yes, of course.
But what we are saying, biodiversity loss is a fact.
It's a scientific fact.
It's widely accepted.
If you look at this book, it makes no mention of the negative impacts of Sitka spruce plantations.
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