Leave No Trace Ireland & Partners Ask Public to Celebrate First National ‘Love This Place Day’ This Friday with Simple Actions To Respect and Protect Our Natural Environment
Thursday 27th July 2023: Leave No Trace Ireland is asking the public to celebrate the First National Love This Place Day tomorrow (Friday 28th ) by taking a simple action that helps protect the natural environment and shows care and respect for outdoor spaces.
Speaking ahead of National Love This Place Day – which also coincides with World Nature Conservation Day – Leave No Trace Ireland CEO, Maura Kiely said:
“We hope National Love This Place Day will become firmly established in the calendar as an annual call out to encourage everyone to take simple actions to respect and protect our wonderful outdoor spaces. This annual event will become a fantastic opportunity to have a national conversation and build a movement for positive change in how we care for, and protect, the natural world and our outdoor public spaces.”
There are several ways that Leave No Trace Ireland and its campaign partners are encouraging people to celebrate ‘Love This Place Day’ this Friday (28th July) including:
- Planning a 2-minute clean-up with your friends, organisation, or solo
- Volunteering with a local community group such as Tidy Towns
- Embracing our island and cultural heritage by planning a trip to one of Ireland’s many wonderful historical sites or landmarks.
- Taking the “Love This Place” Promise on the Leave No Trace website
- Taking a photo, and Sharing and Tagging it to Leave No Trace Ireland #LoveThisPlaceDay #LeaveNoTrace
National Leave No Trace Day is the culmination of the 2023 Love This Place National Awareness Campaign which promotes responsible enjoyment of Ireland’s rich natural heritage of outdoor spaces and environment.
Leave No Trace is joined in marking National Love This Place Day 2023 by its core partners including Fáilte Ireland, Sport Ireland, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Department of Rural and Community Development, Dublin City Council, the Office of Public Works, Coillte, and Waterways Ireland. The campaign was also supported for the first time this year by Clare County Council, Fingal County Council, Galway County Council, Kilkenny County Council, Mayo County Council, Wicklow County Council, and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
Media Contacts:
Derek Cunningham 086-2430535 [email protected]
Jim Devlin 0872631057 [email protected]
Notes to Editors:
Leave No Trace Ireland is Ireland’s only outdoor ethics programme, which promotes the responsible use of the outdoors. Through education, research and partnerships, Leave No Trace Ireland enables and supports individuals, communities, organisations and companies in reducing the environmental impact of outdoor activities.
Sport Ireland is the authority tasked with the development of sport in Ireland. Sport Ireland Outdoors, a function of Sport Ireland, works with a large number of sporting bodies and other organisations to develop and promote a variety of outdoor sports, to support the development of recreational trails throughout Ireland, which are all developed to encourage more people to be active in the great outdoors.
The National Parks and Wildlife Service is the Executive Agency within the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, with primary responsibility for nature conservation, wildlife protection and the presentation and preservation of our National Parks and Nature Reserves.
The Department of Rural and Community Development’s mission is to promote rural and community development and to support vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable communities throughout Ireland. The Department of Rural and Community Development acts as Secretariat for Comhairle na Tuaithe – the Countryside Council – which is made up of representatives from farming organisations, recreational users of the countryside and State bodies with a responsibility or interest in the countryside. Comhairle na Tuaithe endorses Leave No Trace.
The Office of Public Works (OPW) is a government office that delivers public services for flood protection, managing government properties and heritage services.
Fáilte Ireland is the National Tourism Development Authority, and its role is to support the long-term sustainable growth in the economic, social, cultural and environmental contribution of tourism to Ireland.
Waterways Ireland is the cross-border navigational authority responsible for the management, maintenance, development, and promotion of over 1000 km of inland navigable waterways, principally for recreational purposes.
Coillte, Ireland’s state forestry company, is responsible for managing 440,000 hectares of primarily forested lands. Coillte is the nation’s largest forester and provider of outdoor recreation space. It also enables wind-energy on the estate, processes forestry by-products and undertakes nature rehabilitation projects of scale. Coillte delivers the multiple benefits of forestry, including forests for climate, for nature, for wood and for people. For further information visit www.coillte.ie.
Dublin City Council (Irish: Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath) is the authority responsible for local government in the city of Dublin in Ireland.
