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Irish Girl Guides - take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints

Stella Walsh is an Irish Girl Guide Leader, Outdoor Advisor and Trainer and has been involved with the message of Leave No Trace since 1989. She delivered an awareness session to the Irish Girl Guide Leaders in February 2008.   What does the Leave No Trace message mean to you? A conscious effort when out in our pristine areas to remove ... Read More >

First Council to Sign Up...

Limavady Borough Council in Northern Ireland is pleased to become a supporting partner of Leave No Trace Ireland. The ethics employed by Leave No Trace allow the Council to consider the sustainable delivery of its services. This is particularly relevant in terms of tourism, outdoor recreation and beach management. The areas of Limavady and Roe Valley have beautiful and diver ... Read More >

A Perspective from Leave No Trace America

The Leave No Trace Centre for Outdoor Ethics in Boulder, Colorado has received enquiries from over 65 countries in recent years for education, training and tools to provide Leave No Trace programmes. Requests have ranged from developing Leave No Trace organisations in New Zealand, Israel and India to programme work in places such as the Ukraine, Philippines, China, Tanzania ... Read More >

Training at the Top - Second Course in Ireland

 In June 2008, Leave No Trace Ireland will deliver its second Master Educator/ Instructor Course, the highest level of Leave No Trace training. This will be the third course to be delivered in Europe, the first was in Scotland 2005 and then Ireland in 2006. It is intended to train 12 Instructors in Leave No Trace, who can then pass the message on through their own work ... Read More >

Greenbox...Get Involved

The Greenbox is a cross border organisation in the North West of Ireland that has been set up to stimulate the development of ecotourism in this region. The area of the Greenbox includes Counties Fermanagh, Leitrim, West Cavan, North Sligo, South Donegal and North West Monaghan. Core to ecotourism and to the Greenbox philosophy is the concept of environmental sustainability. ... Read More >

NEW Look for Information Booklet

To help create a strong more recognisable brand for Leave No Trace in Ireland, the Information Booklet detailing Leave No Trace seven key principles has also been redesigned. You can download copies of the new booklet from the website www.leavenotraceireland.org or request copies free of charge by emailing info@leavenotraceireland.org. ... Read More >

Coillte Welcomes All Visitors and Promotes

Woodland restoration project incorporating the principles of Leave No Trace launched. Mary Wallace TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food with special responsibility for forestry, launched Ireland’s largest woodland restoration project in December co-funded by Coillte and EU DGEnvironment under the LIFE-N ... Read More >

Ireland Eco Tours Boosts 'Green' Credentials

Ireland Eco Tours is a small Eco Tour Company that offers a range of day tours and multi-day trips in the North West of Ireland. Since having embraced the Leave No Trace ethos into its business this has proved very successful, and therefore it intends to continue to use the principles of Leave No Trace as an important part of everything it does in the daily running of the bu ... Read More >

Helping Spread the Message

The Irish Girl Guides To help spread the message of Leave No Trace, the Irish Girl Guides not only included an article on Leave No Trace within its October Leaders’ magazine, but also sent out with each magazine a copy of the Leave No Trace booklet. They have also changed the syllabus in their Brownie programme (for girls 7 - 10 years of age) from "unde ... Read More >

Coillte gives Prominent Position to Leave No Trace Message

Coillte (the Irish Forestry Board) is giving a prominent position to the Leave No Trace message in its major recreation programme which it is rolling out in 2007 with support under the National Development Plan Tourism Measures, administered by Fáilte Ireland. Bill Murphy, Head of Recreation with Coillte, said the programme would see significant developments and upgra ... Read More >

Promoting Leave No Trace on Coillte's New Website

Another element of the promotion of the Leave No Trace message by Coillte, is its inclusion on its new recreation website www.coillteoutdoors.ie . Coillte believes this website will become an important resource for people visiting the forests and countryside and therefore has given the Leave No Trace message a very prominent position on the website. Leave No Trace is not only o ... Read More >

An Taisce - ‘Pack it in Pack it out’

An Taisce and the Blue Flag Programme, in supporting the Leave No Trace ethos, are currently piloting a “Pack It In Pack It Out” initiative at several of Cork’s Blue Flag beaches, encouraging beach users to take all their litter home and dispose of it correctly. Local authorities in Ireland invest substantial sums of money into meeting the Blue Flag criteri ... Read More >

CAAN Promotes Leave No Trace

To show its support for the principles of Leave No Trace, the Countryside Access and Activities Network (CAAN), has agreed that all new activity guides and brochures, trail guides, interpretation panels etc will include, as a minimum, the Leave No Trace logo and where possible will list the 7 principles of Leave No Trace. Permission from America was received to put the logo ... Read More >

Leave No Trace in the Tourism Sector

Tourism is a major contributor to the Irish economy, with overseas tourist visits for 2006 estimated at 7.4m, foreign exchange earnings for the same period at €4.7 billion, and the tourism and hospitality sector currently supporting 12% of jobs in Ireland. The future success of the tourism industry, however, is inextricably linked to the quality of our environment. < ... Read More >

Sport Northern Ireland adopts Leave No Trace Principles

Sport Northern Ireland has long been an advocate of developing both man-made and natural resources as sites for sustainable sport and physical recreation. There is no greater exciting & dynamic facility than the natural environment in which to participate in sport and physical recreation. While actively encouraging and promoting increasing levels of participation in the ... Read More >

Mountain Meitheal, Getting Out and Giving Back

Mountain Meitheal has been involved with Leave No Trace from its beginning when Bill Murphy (then Chairman) first broached the idea of introducing it as a concept to Ireland. As one of Mountain Meitheal’s main objectives is “to spread an awareness of sustainable recreation”, its members have taken to Leave No Trace with a passion. Mountain Meitheal is a gro ... Read More >

Training Update...

Master Educators Since May 2006 there are currently 13 Master Educators within Leave No Trace Ireland, with another course organised for June 2008. This now enables the message of Leave No Trace to be filtered down through the different levels of training. Leave No Trace Ireland would like to give a big thank you to the Master Educators Ann F ... Read More >

Awareness Session with the Irish Girl Guides

Over thirty Girl Guide and Brownie Leaders from the Northwest region attending a conference in Sligo on 6th October 2007 participated in a two hour Leave No Trace Awareness Session given by Leonard Floyd (a trainer of Leave No Trace). Under instruction to keep the session active and participatory, the usual powerpoint presentation was dropped with only an introductory DVD shown ... Read More >