New Department of Agriculture report shows total afforestation struggled to exceed 2,000 hectares compared to target of 8,000
“While these new forests planted in 2022 will ultimately form a valuable part of our national forest estate and will play an important role in sequestering carbon, providing timber and creating new habitats, last year’s level of planting is far below where we ultimately need to be,” she accepted.
“I am confident that the programme will mark a turning point for Irish forestry and will unlock the potential for the sector to get back to planting 8,000ha annually and more,” said Ms Hackett. Sinn Féin agriculture spokeswoman Claire Kerrane said the “report further underlined what was already known and that was that the Government were continuing to fail to deliver on forestry.
“There is an annual target of 8,000 hectares of afforestation, yet we are looking at a combined total of 6,723 hectares for the past three years.
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