The once mighty Terryland Forest Park project that was renowned for spearheading community involvement in park and habitat management and development has seem to have lost its way.Failure by City Council to maintain the involvement of the community sector and other stakeholders such as artists, ecologists, foresters, environmentalists, botanists, zoologists & health specialists has meant that the project has degenerated into just another urban woodland scared by the common modern ailments of 'bushing', litter and lack of identity. The great days of arts events, kiddies 'bulbathons' and family 'plantathons' seem to be a dim and distant memory.
Unbelievably, the Council is now proposing to build a road through the Forest park defeating the very ethos of a project that was promoting the development of an urban 'ecological corridor' that would form an unbroken 'green highway' for wildlife linking the River Corrib near to Terryland Castle through to Ballydooley Lough via Castlegar village.
This built development is against the Council's own Development Plan and Habitats' Inventory Report.
An unmaintained lifebuoy unit along the banks of the Terryland River. No lifebuoy and overgrown with plants.
No comments:
Post a Comment