ABOUT US
Save Leitrim is a voluntary organisation, comprising of like minded individuals from across county Leitrim, who are willing to fight the continued exploitation and decimation of the indigenous people and their environment by the Government’s subsidised conifer (Sitka Spruce) afforestation programme.
The people of Leitrim see first hand the detrimental impact which decades of afforestation have had on our rural communities, with the closure and the threatened closure of schools, the destruction of local GAA clubs and other sporting organisations. The conifer plantations threaten the viability and sustainability of our small farms and businesses in our villages and towns.
Save Leitrim are shouting STOP to the blanket afforestation of our county. The government’s national target of 17% of this country to be planted by 2030, has already been surpassed in Leitrim as we have 18.3% planted.
Save Leitrim will no longer stand idly by and watch Irish taxpayers money being given to Speculators, Vulture Funds or Pension Funds to clear Ireland’s most rural county of its people. Save Leitrim is not opposed to farmers planting their own lands with native species of trees and we would support agroforestry schemes.
