Environmentalist Eoghan Daltun’s new book is an education in how Ireland’s natural landscape is meant to look. Here, he makes the case for paying farmers to rewild their land, talks about the scourge of grazing sheep and reflects on the future of his west Cork rainforest Interview with author and rewilder Eoghan Daltun Of all the sounds to savour in Eoghan Daltun’s rainforest —the wind in the leaves, the trickle of streams, the call of the elusive jay — the penny dropping might be the most satisfying. It comes in a gasp the moment a visitor realises that this oasis is not some aberration of nature but the way Ireland’s landscape should look.
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