Eoghan Daltun 🌍

I'm totally pinching myself announcing this, but a film about my life journey rewilding a West Cork farm, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, will get its first screening at the Dublin International Film Festival on Saturday the 28th of this month. Tickets are available here: www.diff.ie/programme/an...

Psychologically, we're living in very hard times for all who care deeply about science, empathy, equity, nature, and rights for all citizens of the planet, human or otherwise. Find strength, solace, and community in like-minded others, positive action, and in Mother Earth 🌎

Those who think nature has no inherent value, that it's just there to be exploited, also tend to see other people who are different to them in the same way: women, people of colour, Muslims, Jews, gays, trans, indigenous, Palestinians, even children... the list goes on and on. It's *all* connected.

Lough Neagh and its one out-flowing river, the Bann (pictured), are a warning of where Ireland's water bodies are headed without action on excess nutrients: beautifully rich ecosystems turned into slimey, dying, stinking, open sewers. All so a few people can make money pumping out livestock shit.

I can't wait to celebrate World Rewilding Day 2026 with the wonderful Kerri ní Dochartaigh at the Slieve Aughty Centre, Co. Galway, on Friday the 20th. We'll be talking the Great Forest of Aughty, and rewilding's potential to return some of the nature we've lost. www.celtnet.org/events/world...

What at first glance looks like the caps of reddish fungi on a tree trunk, turns out to be the large fruiting bodies of an epiphytic peltigera lichen. But of course, lichens are part fungi. So in that sense, the initial judgement wasn't wrong! The magic of an Irish rainforest.

Reading and acting on this post could well save your life. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Exact same spot. Exact same time of year. Four years apart. Not a thing planted. The power of rewilding.

Agreed

I was very kindly asked by the @museumofchildhood.bsky.social to contribute a personal story related to my childhood and nature, which I did. You can read it here: museumofchildhood.ie/that-wilder-...

Great!! Sheep are a *top* cause of nature loss. www.bbc.com/news/article...

For me, nothing announces the arrival of spring in the rainforest like the first flowering wood anemone. Their unrestrained bright and cheeriness seems to herald the longer, warmer days to come.

Just as in Europe and other continents, the human-driven extinction of megafauna like elephants had hugely negative impacts on American ecosystems. If we want to make them function healthily once more, that factor mustn't be overlooked. share.google/1nMLsNANDBq1...

Costa Rica has shown it *IS* possible to bring back nature on a mass scale, as @thinkorswim.bsky.social outlines in this great piece. Meanwhile in Ireland all we get is, at best, incremental change and fudging. Why is Irish nature always just an afterthought? www.irishtimes.com/environment/...