Eco Eye returns in a new hard hitting documentary series format. Duncan Stewart is joined by ecologist Anja Murray to investigate Ireland’s major environmental issues, why they are centrally important to public health and the economy, and what the obstacles are to shaping better policy for now and the future.
Eco Eye series 13 – Episode 3 – ‘The Power Of Wood’
We’ve long known that we could not survive in this world without forests. Forests filter the air we breath and regulate our climate. But across the planet forests are under attack and disappearing at an alarming rate.
Ireland already has one of the lowest levels of forest cover in the world, and to play our part in the fight against deforestation we would need to grow a lot more forests in the next ten years. But what would growing forests mean for Ireland and Irish landowners? Can there be an economic case made for growing more forests?
In this episode Duncan Stewart investigates the economic implications of more forestry, and discovers that forestry and forest products could be an area of major economic growth in the coming years if we played our cards right. We just need the right smart policies in place to make that happen.