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// The Forest Network Newsletter is back

Dubbed by Michael Viney in the Irish Times as 'generally hostile and unforgiving, but often revelatory', this FNN begins by revealing how Ireland is avoiding an SEA for forestry which could lay the groundwork for a sustainable national forestry policy. But the legal exemption from SEA in Irish law only applied while forestry was EU funded - which is no longer the case. Has the loophole become a noose?

This issue also covers the Irish FSC [Forest Stewardship Council] certification debacle; the recent contractors' protest at the Irish Natural Forestry Foundation's Cork conference (which is also covered with links to the pod casts of the presentations); the legal status of Coillte; and how they misled Ireland's Minister by claiming the UK pesticides authority had approved the cocktail of insecticide and adhesive they now apply to the seedlings at their nurseries and export to the UK; - and an obituary for Crann, the self styled 'leading Irish tree organisation' which has been awarded €5000 from the plastic bag levy fund to help it 'merge' and 'rebrand' with another organisation.

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