Members and Friends of the Tree Council

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Patrons/Members

Membership of the Tree Council of Ireland is on a corporate basis and is subject to approval by the Council and subject to a yearly fee.

Contact the Tree Council for details.

Patrons\Members of the Tree Council of Ireland

Friends

The Tree Council of Ireland has many 'Friends'. These 'Friends of the Tree Council' are corporate bodies who pay a yearly fee to support us in our work. In-turn they receive reports on our activities, attend our events and functions, are listed on our literature and website and are allowed use our logo on their packaging (subject to extra fee and regulations).

By being a 'Friend of the Tree Council' an organisation is showing their concern for the environment and contributing to more tree planting in urban and rural areas around Ireland.

Contact the Tree Council for details.

Patrons of the Tree Council of Ireland
Patrons
Mr. Ambrose Congreve

Members of the Tree Council of Ireland
Members
An Oige	An Taisce
The Arboricultural Association	Association of Landscape Contractors of Ireland (ALCI)	ASTI
Birdwatch Ireland	COFORD	Coillte
Crann	Dublin City Council	Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Co. Council
ECO-Unesco Association of Ireland	Environmental Science Association of Ireland	Federation of Irish Bee Keepers' Association
Fingal County Council	Forest Service	G.A.A
Garden and Landscape Designers Association (GLDA)	Garden Centre Association of Ireland	Heritage Trees of Ireland
Institute of Horticulture	Institute of Technology Blanchardstown	International Society of Arboriculture
Irish Country Womens' Association	Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers' Association	Irish Deer Society
Irish Farmers' Association	Irish Landscape Institute	Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO)
Irish Timber Growers Association	Irish Tree Society	Irish Woodturners' Guild
Landscape Alliance Ireland	Macra na Feirme	National Association of Regional Game Councils (NARGC)
The National Botanic Gardens	National Parks & Wildlife Service	OPW - Heritage Services
Professional Gardeners Guild	Pro Silva	Royal Dublin Society (RDS)
Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland (RHSI)	Scouting Ireland (CSI)	Sculpture in Woodlands
Society of Irish Foresters	South Dublin County Council	Teagasc
Teak 21	UCD-School of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine	Woodlands of Ireland

Friends of the Tree Council of Ireland
Friends
An Bord Bia	Aisling Books	Coillte
Green Star	Irish Distillers	Meath County Council
Motor Services Limited	National Agrochemical Distributors	O2
South Dublin County Council	Tetra Pak

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Irish Tree Trivia

At the end of the Ice Age some 10,000 years ago, Ireland wasn’t an island, but was in fact attached to mainland Europe by a land-bridge that allowed plants and animals to move here. Different types of trees gradually moved here naturally through the spread of their seed, either by wind or, in the case of nuts and berries, by birds and mammals.

Eventually, as the sea level rose, Ireland was cut off from the rest of Europe, preventing more trees from coming here. Because of this, we have just 28 species of native trees, which is really a very small number compared to the rest of Europe.

The pine forests on the mountains only lasted 5,000 years and were gone by early Christian times. This is because around that time, the climate got colder and wetter, and bogs began to grow, swamping out these forests.

We can still find the remains of those ancient pine forests today buried in the peat of our blanket bogs.