Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

EU Nature Restoration Target: COPA-COGECA

Mr. Niall Curley:

Finland is another one. This law specifically targets the restoration of specific areas and habitats. In many areas it is putting up a couple of trees or letting land be rewilded. In other countries, specifically northern countries, peatlands - forestry areas - will be affected. In many cases it is just the rewetting of agricultural and forestry peatlands, and the addition of basically wild forests. In this case, it is Ireland, Finland, Sweden and the Baltic countries as well as Germany to a certain extent and a bit of Denmark. It is mainly the Nordic countries.