Eoghan Daltun 🌍
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
Author of award-winning bestseller An Irish Atlantic Rainforest. Over 17 years rewilding our 73-acre farm on the Beara Peninsula, West Cork. In love with Earth's biosphere.
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
What did @irishrainforest.bsky.social do to deserve this?
Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 4h agoThis is the highest-resolution view of the surface of the Sun. Ever. Taken by the NSF's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, features as small as 19 km across can be resolved. The wispy things are magnetic field boundaries formed by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. The island of Ireland for scale.
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest will start screening at the Arc Cinema in Cork City in just over a week's time, on Friday the 14th. More details here: cork.arccinema.ie/event/113221
Arc Cinema Cork | An Irish Atlantic Rainforest
Watch An Irish Atlantic Rainforest at Arc Cinema Cork. Enjoy the latest films in comfort at Arc Cinemas. With great screens, sound, and snacks, it's the perfect place for a night at the movies.
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A debate is raging here as to whether humans are 1. An "invasive species" (presumably outside Africa) 2. "Part of nature" My take? We are neither of the above, nor separate from nature. Our relationship with the natural world is far more complicated, and defies such simplistic definitions.
Banjomon@banjomonome.bsky.social · 7h agoIn the wild places, man is an unwelcome guest. Look at all the garbage orbiting the Earth. Who do you think put it there? It wasn't aliens. Have you seen Mt. Everest lately? Dead bodies and oxygen tanks and tents litter the mountain side.
A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!
"No humans allowed" is NOT part of rewilding. No human activities damaging to nature allowed sums it up. Two very different things.
LUE Outdoors@lueoutdoors.bsky.social · 9h agoLook at Colorado as an e.g. of a place that is failing 🫤 Rewilding: Citizens NEED to be on board, and rules & laws NEED to be enforced. (OP)Alongside that, the land needs to remain a "rewilded" conservation area- no humans allowed (accept for conservation work, e.g. invasive species and disease).
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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I HAVE to put this out there! People like Eoghan give me hope ❤️❤️❤️❤️ bsky.app/profile/iris...
Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · 3mo agoI'm *wildly* excited to announce that my new book, 'Setting the Land Free – Visions of a Rewilded Ireland', will be published by Hachette on 27 August. We have a stark choice re our collapsing nature: the usual timid, token gestures, or real, gutsy ambition. This book makes the case for the latter.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-84-... For the moment, we are not even trying to stop making things worse. Let alone trying to fix the problems.
Analysis: 84% of nations miss deadline to identify ‘nature-harming’ subsidies by 2025 - Carbon Brief
Most countries failed to meet a 2025 target to identify all of their subsidies that could be “harmful” to biodiversity, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
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For many years, this hawthorn grew alone in an open landscape. Now a young species-rich rainforest ecosystem is building all around. Nature loss isn't inevitable: it *can* be reversed, through rewilding.
The case for rewilding could not be more clear, on every conceivable level. Now it's time to put it into *action*.
The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · yesterdayDone properly, rewilded landscapes are more fire-resistant.
For anyone trying to watch the trailer for An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: click on the link, rather than the 'play' icon on the screen (the latter doesn't seem to work, for some reason!).
Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · yesterdayOur film An Irish Atlantic Rainforest is going down a total bomb with anyone who sees it. It's sold out for a 3rd night running at Bantry Cinemax, and is being brought back to the Irish Film Institute in Dublin for another week from Friday due to popular demand!!! 🥳 🎉 🪅 🎊 vimeo.com/1211649058/7...
You're talking about people in a well-off country in the global north like they're a lost Amazon tribe. I am heavily involved in sustainable food production in one of the poorest regions in Western Europe and no one round here is eating baby seagulls.
Our film An Irish Atlantic Rainforest is going down a total bomb with anyone who sees it. It's sold out for a 3rd night running at Bantry Cinemax, and is being brought back to the Irish Film Institute in Dublin for another week from Friday due to popular demand!!! 🥳 🎉 🪅 🎊 vimeo.com/1211649058/7...
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest Trailer_ProRes
When a Dublin sculptor trades city life for 73 acres of ecologically ravaged land on Ireland's wild Atlantic coast, he discovers that the most radical act of conservation is simply learning to do noth...
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The man who worked for Zuckerberg, Musk & Google has a warning: international unity is required to face the tsunami of technologies like AI currently being rolled out. Otherwise, we face a *near* future of unimaginable inequality, fascism, climate & eco collapse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aO_...
The man who worked for Zuckerberg, Musk and Google has a warning
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Yes, there's definitely some good stuff going on. A major problem though is that this is often used to deflect from how totally ecocidal 99.99% of livestock farming is. bsky.app/profile/iris...
Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's essential to add here that livestock farming, including cattle, is THE biggest cause of nature loss on Earth. While in certain situations seasonal grazing by tiny numbers of cattle can be beneficial (called 'conservation grazing'), this is *highly* exceptional. The vast majority kills nature.
I wouldn't be an expert on American prairie ecosystems, but what I can say is that wild grazers have VERY different effects to domestic livestock. They usually number far less, and move around the landscape in a natural way, regulated by predators and other factors.
@annothery.bsky.social · 2d agoWith respect, because I genuinely don’t know. How are cattle different than bison in the Americas, in times past? Is it the concentration of animals? Or the lack of ability to change grazing location? Something else? Or were bison midway through destroying the prairies?
No it's not, because they don't NEED to do it for food.
@treewomanjones.bsky.social · 2d agoNo this is different because these people are doing this for food..
It's essential to add here that livestock farming, including cattle, is THE biggest cause of nature loss on Earth. While in certain situations seasonal grazing by tiny numbers of cattle can be beneficial (called 'conservation grazing'), this is *highly* exceptional. The vast majority kills nature.
Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2d agoGlan is grazed only once a year (in early winter) by our Dexter cattle, which gives all the wild plants time to seed out first, and finches and other small birds get to feed on seed heads. It's a 'work in progress', but is clearly already delivering for nature!
Rainforest isn't the only important species habitat here on the farm, far from it. This wildflower meadow is in a field by the house (traditionally named 'Glan'). Glan was previously severely overgrazed, but is now ever more biodiverse, full of flowers and invertebrates like butterflies.
The sheer joy of being in the rainforest with actual rain again. But the ever more frequent, intense, and longer lasting droughts and heatwaves are causes for extremely deep concern about the future of such wild, natural ecosystems. Climate breakdown is here.
🧵Right-leaning newspapers are trying to blame Europe's raging wildfires on everything EXCEPT fossil fuels 1. The Wall Street Journal Frontpage story: "Greece fights wildfires as Europe crisis spreads" WSJ editorial: "How green policies fuel fires in Europe"
You know what? I don't care if this or similar acts are part of your 'tradition'. It's obscenely wrong and has to stop, period. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scottish islanders refused permission to stage annual guga hunt
Each year hundreds of gannet chicks are killed for their meat on the uninhabited Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir.
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We were so pleased and proud that Mark McClean and Blue Hare Films were nominated for a 2026 Working with Nature Award for their film-making for the Save Our Sprat campaign. Thank you to the Powerscourt Estate for recognising all the valuable work. It would give you hope! 👏
Nature is life's greatest gift. And its annihilation the greatest, needless, crime.
Yesterday UK organic eggs were found to be worse on climate than factory-farmed eggs. Today, a damning investigation shows horrific conditions within an organic chicken farm in the US. Watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-qy...
New Investigation: Abuse Continues at Costco Chicken Supplier
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
