There are a range of FREE Tree Webinars taking place over National Tree Week

Please register for ANY and ALL events!

Monday 22nd March 2021
12:00 pm

Forest Restoration: Building Climate Resilience During The Decade of Restoration

• Susan Gardner, UNEP Ecosystems Division Director
• Andreas Dahl-Jørgensen, Director, Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI)
• Alexander Shestakov, Director of the Science, Society and Sustainable Futures Division (Rep. Executive Secretary UNCBD)
• Anna Carbonell, Plant-for-the-Planet Mexico

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
11:30 am

Trees In Springtime

Éanna Ní Lamhna is a botanist and a wildlife expert. Her knowledgeable and humorous presentations are always a joy to listen to.
She is currently President of the Tree Council of Ireland.

Tuesday 23rd March 2021
6:30 pm

Celebration of National Tree Week

• Dr. Ana Perez-Sierra, Forest Research, U.K. – ‘Tree Health
• Katherine O’Donnell, BGCI – ‘The International Plant Sentinel Network’
• Kevin Collins, Forest Service, Dept. of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, Ireland – ‘Managing Irish Native Woodlands’

Wednesday 24th March 2021
1:00 pm

UCC Virtual Tree Tour

Dr. Eoin Lettice is a lecturer in plant science at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science (BEES) and the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) at University College Cork.  His research interests include plant pathology, biological control, soil biology, sustainable agriculture as well as the role of urban trees and green spaces.

Wednesday 24th March 2021
7:00 pm

Seeing The Woods For The Trees

Éanna Ní Lamhna is a botanist and a wildlife expert. Her knowledgeable and humorous presentations are always a joy to listen to.
She is currently President of the Tree Council of Ireland.

Thursday 25th March 2021
11.30 am

What Are Veteran Trees? - and how we should look after them

Cormac Downey has worked on, up and with trees for the last 30 years. His journey into arboriculture began in 1990 and developed from working as a commercial climber to running his own tree surgery business for 19 years. In 2016 he was appointed Arboricultural Officer, for the Office of Public Works, the first ever in Ireland.  He holds the PDArb (RFS), NDArb from Merrist Wood (UK) and a HND in Rural Resource Management) from Seale-Hayne (UK).  He is an active member of the Irish Branch of the Arboricultural Association and is currently Vice-President of the Tree Council of Ireland.

Thursday 25th March 2021
3.00 pm

The Annual Augustine Henry Forestry Lecture: Agroforestry - Trees On Farms And Carbon Neutral Livestock Systems

Dr McAdams, Honorary Professor, Queen’s University Belfast and Chair, the Agricultural History Society of Ireland

Thursday 25th March 2021
3.00 pm

Artist-In-Residence, Fion Gunn, "Plant More Trees!"

We are celebrating National Tree Week by hosting a Zoom event in collaboration with Orla Farrell, Founder and Leader, Easy Treesie Project with Crann.  In this initiative by the MCI’s Youth Voices Team, we will launch and screen our artist-in-residence, Fion Gunn’s work, ‘Plant More Trees!’ (A virtual reality work).

Friday 26th March 2021
2.00 pm

The Easy Treesie Story - Film Friday

Orla Farrell set up the Easy Treesie Project to rise to the Plant-for-the-Planet challenge. The project works with registered charity Crann, Trees for Ireland and partners with Local Authorities and local communities everywhere, drawing from a tree-mendous pool of supporters.