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Yellowstone: like no other place on earth

Grizzly at Yellowstone National Park

Ireland’s Wildlife contributor Daniel Lettice shares his recent experience visiting the USA’s most famous wilderness… The fulfilment of a long held ambition to visit Yellowstone National Park began on October 18th when we arrived in Gardiner, Montana, close to Yellowstone’s north entrance. The previous three weeks had been spent biting….

Ireland “at the forefront” of new wilderness initiative in Europe

Wild Nephin wilderness park

An area covering more than 11,000 hectares of the Nephin Beg range in North West Mayo has been designated as an official “Wilderness Area” following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Coillte (the Irish forestry service) and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. The document….