The purpose of The Green Sod Land Trust – An Fóidín Glas, Ireland is to protect and conserve land in Ireland for the sake of its indigenous inhabitants. The Trust works with local communities and encourages them to live in harmony with nature. It also works to advance education by promoting and encouraging public awareness of the importance of conserving land and protecting the environment for the benefit of present and future generations.
The Trust encourages, promotes and fosters the initiation of proposals for the conservation, protection and improvement of lands and the environment.
The Green Sod Land Trust – An Fóidín Glas, works:
1. To conserve land both for it’s own sake and the sake of future generations.
2. To protect the existing natural process, and it indigenous inhabitants out of respect for the diversity of life.
3. To renew land where it has been damaged, by encouraging natural processes enabling less restricted interactions amongst species.
4. To work with local communities and to encourage them to live in harmony with nature. To promote biodiversity. To encourage bio dynamic agriculture.
5. To promote an awareness and understanding of the natural world.
6. To stimulate public support and debate to protect land from improper use, so that land may no longer be seen merely as a commodity but as a source of life.
7. To encourage voluntary participation in the conservation and renewal of land.
