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 [...]
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February 1, 2022
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August 11, 2021
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 [...]
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August 11, 2021
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 [...]
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August 11, 2021
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 [...]
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June 24, 2021
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 [...]
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March 19, 2020
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 [...]
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March 19, 2020
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 [...]
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March 19, 2020
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 [...]
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January 17, 2020
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 [...]
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December 14, 2019
300 students from 11 schools attended the annual Green-Schools Global Goals Conference in the Radisson Hotel, Little Island, Cork on Tuesday November 12. At the conference students learnt about the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how they are helping to achieve these Global Goals through their work on the Green-Schools programme. The work they do [...]