THE MAGIC OF AN IRISH RAINFOREST

Magical images of Ireland s temperate rainforests meet with powerful nature writing on an astonishing journey into the wild from the award winning author of An Irish Atlantic Rainforest In 2023 environmentalist and rewilder Eoghan Daltun travelled the length and breadth of Ireland photographing areas of temperate rainforest in a bid to illustrate their beauty and immense ecological value and to document in almost all cases their state of decline The resulting collection of stunning images combined with deeply illuminating nature writing charts that exploration beginning with the author s own thriving wild rainforest Bofickil on the Beara Peninsula West Cork and taking us through the four provinces of Ireland places such as Killarney National Park Kerry The Gearagh Cork The Burren Clare Old Head Wood County Mayo Glenveagh National Park Donegal Correl Glen and Cladagh Glen County Fermanagh and Wicklow s beauty spot of Glendalough From close range to wide lens luscious forest imagery and landscapes are captured unimaginably rich in native flora and fauna offering us a deep insight into rare and priceless ecosystem fragments that we still have but are losing fast alongside a compelling treatise for how that could so easily be changed fo