Why These Surfers Want to Restore a Rainforest
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Why These Surfers Want to Restore a Rainforest

Wired  

This story originally appeared in Hakai and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the stark sheep pastures of Ireland’s Maumturk Mountains, just a few gnarled trees cling to the hillside, twisted and bent by decades facing down the raw Atlantic winds. The nonprofit Hometree, started by a group of surfers, wants to buy 800 hectares of land across eight sites in western Ireland to reforest over the next four years. For Hometree cofounder and former pro surfer Matt Smith, bringing native forests back to this coast is a logical response to the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. It’s largely denuded of trees: “There’s probably about 10 or 12 native trees on the whole 280 acres,” says Hometree’s project lead, Ray Ó Foghlú.

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