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“Sheer three-dimensionality is perhaps the most arresting aspect of an Irish rainforest, as though a living ecosystem had contrived to pack the maximum quantity of spatial strata into the smallest volume possible and succeeded to the wildest degree.” -The Magic of an Irish Rainforest by Eoghan Daltun The Glen of the Downs is an oak-woodland …
Celebrate saving the less charismatic Write odes to plankton, snail and flies, Our love of birds and mammals may be automatic, But we struggle to value lichen in our lives. It's harder to sing of fungi than of tigers, Hard to remember the worm in the earth, Diversity means algae as much as flowers So …
When I was 12, nearly 13, I had a science project due; one of my first of secondary school. I loved forests so I decided to look at the effects of deforestation which led me to studies of Greenhouse Gases. It was 2004 and while people knew about "global warming", it was not on the …
Technology and nature are often portrayed as opposing forces. We are told to "log off" and go outside. The manner in which digital and other medias can extend a love of wildlife and the outdoors to those not raised with it is often overlooked outside of an academic context but there are ways in which the …
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