How Ireland is abandoning its dirty fuel - BBC
Dec 4, 2020 · Peat bogs have played historic role in Ireland’s economy and culture, but this high-carbon fuel is in fast decline. How will Ireland’s peat-reliant regions adapt?
Peatlands and Turf-cutting | National Parks & Wildlife Service
The loss of Ireland’s bogs would result in an irreplaceable loss to global biodiversity. Intact bogs, which are actively forming peat, play an important role in combating climate change by removing excess carbon dioxide from the air and placing it into long term storage for thousands of years.
All you need to know about turf cutting - RTÉ
Apr 26, 2022 · Turf cutting takes place in bogs, habitats which are predominantly found in Ireland and were formed over thousands of years in areas with poor drainage and high rainfall. The water clogged...
Government failing to prevent illegal turf cutting 12 years after …
Mar 6, 2023 · Illegal extraction of peat is continuing from raised bogs in Ireland located in special areas of conservation (SACs) in spite of a ban introduced in 2011, according to figures released under the...
Farmers and EU face off over bogs, Ireland’s largest carbon store - Grist
Jul 8, 2024 · Only one farmer on the island cuts his bog by hand instead of machines, a symbol of the tradition’s loss. Pressure from the EU to stop turf cutting altogether doesn’t bode well either.
A real turf war breaks out over Ireland’s bogs - Financial Times
Apr 8, 2024 · In the rural bog heartlands, turf cutters cleave to a tradition they see as part of an identity reaching back for generations. Swaths of the centre of Ireland contain so-called raised bogs that...
Over-Exploitation of Peatlands for Peat - Irish Peatland …
Today traditional turf cutting, mechanical turf cutting and industrial peat extraction have accounted for a staggering loss of 47% of the original area of peatlands in Ireland. This represents over half a million hectares of land. It concerns two peatland types in particular – raised bogs and blanket bogs. Industrial Peat Extraction
Protecting the Peatlands of Ireland as Fuel Costs Skyrocket
Oct 4, 2022 · At Lullymore in County Kildare, the Irish Peatland Conservation Council has been restoring the historic Lodge Bog, damming the drains that had dried it for cutting.
Ireland referred to ECJ over protection of bogs - RTÉ
Mar 13, 2024 · The European Commission has referred Ireland to the EU Court of Justice for failing to halt the continued cutting of peat in areas designated to conserve raised bogs and blanket bogs.
Irish Turf and Bogs - Seatrails
Since historic times, people learned how to cut sods of turf out of the bog using a two-sided spade called a Sleán. They spent hours on the bog cutting, turning, and stacking sods of turf to dry and they endured intense, back breaking labour doing all of these tasks.