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  • February 20, 2022

Four Little Woodlands Being Planted in Schools Across Cork

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Cully & Sully and LEAF Ireland are planting four Na Coillte Beaga (little woodlands) in schools throughout County Cork, 800 native trees will be planted in total. The four schools are Midleton College, Rockboro Primary, Scoil Realt na Mara, Ballycotton, and St. John the Baptist, Midleton.  All four schools are also working on the Green-Schools [...]

  • February 1, 2022

LEAF Ireland and Coillte Announce the Delivery of Six New Outdoor Forest Classrooms

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LEAF Ireland and Coillte are delighted to announce the delivery of six new Na Coillte Beaga (little woodlands) in primary and secondary schools across Ireland.  These schools are located in counties: Kerry, Offaly, Dublin, Louth, Wicklow and Donegal.  Planting began in Presentation Secondary School, Tralee, Co. Kerry, this Tuesday.  An Choill Bheag (AnCB) is a [...]

  • August 11, 2021

Investigate Woodlands Workshops 2021/22

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We are delighted to announce that LEAF Ireland and Green Schools Ireland will be collaborating once again to run Investigate Woodlands (IW) Workshops with 100 Green-Schools from around the country.  This is funded by the Department of Food, Agriculture, and the Marine (DAFM) under the Woodland Support Projects 2021/22.  We will provide more information the [...]

  • August 11, 2021

11 new Na Coillte Beaga

We are very excited to announce that we will be planting 11 Na Coillte Beag in the coming school year.  These include six that are being funded by Coillte and will be planted nationwide. A further four will be  planted in Cork and sponsored by Cully & Sully.  Finally, KBI Global Investors are sponsoring the [...]

  • August 11, 2021

Pop Up Forest – Cork Art Project

We worked with TEST SITE, Collaboration with a City and Home Tree Ireland this summer.  The artists created a space for art, architecture, ecology and urban planning in the heart of Cork City, with the support of Cork County Council.  Home Tree installed 300 native trees and our team in An Choill Bheag provided the [...]

  • June 24, 2021

LEAF Student Participates in UNESCO World Conference

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LEAF student and teacher from Thomond Community College, Anna Linehan and Eric O'Donnell, participated at the UN Education for Sustainable Development gathering in May 2021. Anna and Eric were supported by teacher and colleague Veronica Lavin. They represented LEAF Global and Eco-Schools Global! On 18 May, they joined the session "ESD in secondary education". The [...]

  • March 19, 2020

School Based Workshop with Scoil Íde Corbally

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Pupils from Mr. Hennessey’s 3rd class in Scoil Íde Corbally Limerick, had their School Based Workshop on January 29th with LEAF Officer, Seán Hartigan. The class were very enthusiastic and eager to learn more about trees and forests after their Forest Based Workshop in Coillte’s Curragh Chase Forest Park last October. In the classroom, pupils [...]

  • March 19, 2020

B.Ed. Students from Mary Immaculate College Learn about Forests

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LEAF Ireland is delighted to be continuing our work with B.Ed. Students from Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, encouraging these soon to be teachers to bring their own students outdoors and reconnect with nature. Tuesday 25th February, LEAF hosted a College Based Workshop in Mary I., where students were shown a variety of different ways that [...]

  • March 19, 2020

Students Investigating Forests

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On Monday the 27th January two 1st year classes from St Columba’s College braved the elements to move their classrooms outdoors, to take part in activities that highlighted the fundamentals of forest and tree ecology through the Investigate Forests initiative. Just a short walk from Drumboe Forest park, the students of St Columba’s are very [...]

  • January 17, 2020

New Decade Brings Potential for More Sustainable Election Campaigns

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Candidates.ie and the Environmental Education Unit (EEU) of An Taisce have today announced a partnership to help candidates promote their policies online and reduce the carbon footprint of the election by planting thousands of trees. The first election of a new decade provides a chance to do things differently so candidates.ie and EEU An Taisce [...]