About

Green Restoration Ireland Cooperative Society Ltd was established in 2019.

Our goal is to reverse the ecological degradation of the Irish landscape and the loss of rural communities. We support rural development by taking direct action to restore our natural heritage. By restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services, we help to combat climate change.

Bog Rewetting at Lackaduff
Bog Re-wetting at Lackadu. Photo Chris Bellew /Fennell Photography Copyright 2021

We aim to achieve our goal by four means:

1. Peatlands restoration service to be certified under a national Wetland Code.
2. Native woodland creation based on Close to Nature Forestry. This fixes additional carbon and better maintains biodiversity.
3. Restoration of native woodland threatened by deer grazing and invasive species or upgrading of scrub woodland to high woodland
4. Support of sustainable, low-input, diversified regenerative farming and other sustainable rural enterprises which value and create income from our landscape to an appropriate standard.

Properly funded ecological restoration, we believe can provide many of the solutions to community regeneration. We see financing for these initiatives coming through appropriate public funding and the development of high-quality carbon and biodiversity osets for organisations with unavoidable CO2 emissions and biodiversity impacts.

Core Team

We are scientists, farmers, ecologists, professionals, community activists, citizens, and business people united in the common goal of preparing the way for a sustainable future in an economically and ecologically revitalised Ireland.

Dr. Doug McMillan

General Manager

Karine McMillan

Admin. Financial and Business Development Officer

Dr. Bastiaan Molleman

Science Officer and Research Analyst

Filipa Ferraz

Strategic and Innovation Officer

Damien Lynch

Visual Technician

Pedro & Mark

Field Technicians

Kaela Bernardino

Marketing & Communications Officer

Meet Some of Our Farmers

Donie Regan

Adrian Egan

John Deegan

Pat Carroll

GRI Mission

Our goal is to reverse the ecological degradation of the Irish landscape and the loss of rural communities. We support rural development by taking direct action to restore our natural heritage. By restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services, we help to combat climate change.