UPDATE: Tiny urban forest to give biodiversity boost to one Tipperary town

A Tipperary town is set to get a biodiversity boost in the coming weeks with the planting of some new trees.

Thurles town will benefit from a tiny urban forest, which will see over 2,500 trees planted on a site in the town as part of the 100 Million Trees Project.

The trees will take root on a Tipperary County Council-owned site on the Mill Road in Thurles, with local schools, community groups and and the Tidy Towns volunteering on the day to plant the trees.

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The official tree planting day in Thurles is on March 21, getting underway from 10.30am.

The initiative comes as part of the 100 Million Trees Project, supported by AIB and Uniphar, which aims to plant 100 million native Irish trees across the island of Ireland over the next decade to add to biodiversity and help mitigate carbon dioxide in towns and villages across Ireland.

The project’s ambitious aim will be to densely plant up to 2,500 native Irish trees per Mini Forest in quarter of an acre sites using the Miyawaki method, named after Japanese Botanist, Professor Akira Miyawaki, who developed the technique in the 1970s to restore degraded land.

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The project’s target is to plant 550,000 trees in 28 counties across Ireland during 2025.