Whittled Away
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‘Ireland’s heritage is being steadily whittled away by human exploitation, pollution and other aspects of modern development. This could represent a serious loss to the nation.’ Irish Government Report, June 1969 Nature in Ireland is disappearing at an alarming rate. Overfishing, industrial-scale farming and pollution have decimated wildlife habitats and populations. In a single lifetime, vast shoals of herring, rivers bursting with salmon, and bogs alive with flocks of curlew and geese have all become folk memories. Coastal and rural communities are struggling to survive; the foundations of our tourism and agricultural sectors are being undermined. The lack of political engagement frequently sees the state in the European Court of Justice for environmental issues. Pádraic Fogarty authoritatively charts how this grim failure to manage our natural resources has impoverished our country. But all is not lost: he also reveals possibilities for the future, describing how we can fill our seas with fish, farm in tune with nature, and create forests that benefit both people and wildlife. He makes a persuasive case for the return of long-lost species like wild boar, cranes and wolves, showing how the interests of the country and its nature can be reconciled. A provocative call to arms, Whittled Away presents an alternative path that could lead us all to a brighter future.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An extremely comprehensive, straightforward and well-balanced study of the state of Ireland's wildlife and countryside.With an admirable lightness of style the author remains positive for the future, without gritting his teeth, through a catalogue of destruction caused mainly by lack of direction and unintended consequence in an unprecedented period of intensification in farming. He shows how the usual Irish story, centralised 'one size fits all' policy, the spoofery of politicians - "politics and the need to be seen to be addressing the problem", and vested interests have pushed us down the path of short term exploitation and worn the tapestry of life down to the 'warp' thread. Few people who remember the rotten stench off Lough Sheelin and Lough Ennell in the 1980s from the slurry of surrounding piggeries, or the disappearance of the traditions of fishing for salmon and mussels on the Boyne, can credit the 'green' lifestyle branding now put out.