Leave No Trace Ireland

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Leave No Trace Ireland

• Promoting and inspiring responsible outdoor
  recreation through education, research and
  partnerships
• Beverley Pierson
• Project Officer

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What?

• An education programme designed to encourage
  responsible outdoor recreation.
• Land ethic - respect for the land, wildlife,
  other users and land owners/managers.
• Backed up by a tiered education programme.
• Based on seven core principles guidelines and
  techniques to help people make better decisions
  in the outdoors to minimise their impact.

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Principles

• Plan Ahead and Prepare check weather, is your
  activity permitted?
• Be Considerate of Others respect other
  visitors.
• Respect Farm Animals and Wildlife observe wild
  animals from a distance.
• Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces concentrate
  use on existing tracks and trails.

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Principles

• Leave What You Find leave natural habitats as
  you find them.
• Dispose of Waste Properly If you bring it in,
  take it out.
• Minimise the Effects of Fire use established
  fire rings.

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Why?

• More and more of us are engaging in a wider range
  of water and land based activities.
• Therefore our collective mark on the environment
  is increasing.
• Even the most thoughtful visitors leave
  footprints and unintentionally disturb wildlife.
• Examples of impacts by recreational activity-
  eroded soils, trampled vegetation, polluted
  waters, littering and displaced wildlife.

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How?

• Many already practising Leave No Trace.
• Slight changes can have huge positive impacts.
• Simple techniques picking up your litter,
  sticking to established trails, never feed farm
  animals or wildlife, do not disturb wildlife
  keep a good distance, leave natural objects
  (flowers etc.) where you have found them, only
  use dead wood for firewood, keep campsites away
  from water/rivers.
• Interested in learning more? Awareness session
  or Trainer course.

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• The one thing that connects us is this place we
  call the outdoors. As cities grow and pressures
  mount this place becomes more important for our
  physical and mental wellbeing.
• Lets keep it special by aiming to Leave No
  Trace. 
• For more information on Leave No Trace Ireland
  please visit
• www.leavenotraceireland.org
• Thank you