Leave No Trace is a Outdoor Ethics Programme designed to promote and inspire responsible outdoor recreation through education, research, and partnerships. An ethic can be defined as knowing what the right thing to do is, and doing it, even if there is no one about to see you do it. Leave No Trace depends more on attitude and awareness than on rules and regulations. Techniques designed to minimise the social and environmental impacts to the outdoors are incorporated into the Leave No Trace Outdoor Ethics Education Programme as seven principles.

The Seven Principles of Leave No Trace

1. Plan Ahead and Prepare
2. Be Considerate of Others
3. Respect Farm Animals and Wildlife
4. Travel and Camp on Durable Ground
5. Leave What You Find
6. Dispose of Waste Properly
7. Minimise the Effects of Fire

Remember we all have a part to play, whether walking your dog, fishing, hiking, biking or visiting your local park - please Leave No Trace and be an advocate for the message.

"...the person who goes with reverent feet through the hills and valleys, accompanied by neither noise nor dust to scare away wild creatures, stopping often, watching closely, listening carefully. Only thus can they, at length, feel at one with what is, after all, their natural environment." (Praeger 1937).

Main Financial Partners of Leave No Trace Ireland

Other Financial Partners of Leave No Trace Ireland

• An Taisce
• Ballynahinch Castle Hotel
• CAAN (NI)
• Catholic Guides of Ireland
• Cliffs of Moher LTD
• Countrywide Hotels Ireland
• Cycling Ireland
• Dublin Mountains Partnership
• Duke of Edinburgh
• Irish Girl Guides
• Irish Uplands Forum
• Limavady Borough Council
• Metamorphic Media
• Mountaineering Ireland
• Mountain Meitheal
• Mourne Cycle Tours & Tory Bush Cottages
• Mulkear LIFE
• One Foot Abroad
• Scouting Ireland
• Sport Northern Ireland
• Wicklow Uplands Council
• Wexford County Council