Leave No Trace Ireland is asking the public to celebrate Love This Place Day on Sunday 28th July by taking a simple action that helps protect the natural environment and shows care and respect for outdoor spaces.
National Leave No Trace Day is part of the 2024 Love This Place National Awareness Campaign which promotes responsible enjoyment of Ireland’s rich natural heritage of outdoor spaces and environment.
Speaking ahead of National Love This Place Day, Leave No Trace Ireland CEO, Maura Kiely said:
“We want National Love This Place Day to become established in the calendar as an annual call out to inspire individuals, communities and organisations to take simple actions to actively respect and protect our wonderful outdoor spaces and natural environment. This weekend, culminating in Love This Place Day on Sunday, is a fantastic opportunity for everyone to show their enthusiasm and support for a movement for positive change in how we care for, and protect, the natural world and our outdoor public spaces.”
There are several ways that Leave No Trace Ireland and its campaign partners are encouraging people to celebrate Love This Place Day this Sunday (28th July) including.
Plan a 2-minute clean-up with friends, family, colleagues, or solo.
Volunteer with a local community or eco group, such as Tidy Towns.
Join a nature walk or hike to appreciate and learn about the natural environment.
Take the Love This Place Promise on the Leave No Trace website.
· The Love This Place Promise can be found via this link – https://www.
We are asking the public to share their activities on the day.
· Take a photo or video of your action for Love This Place Day, tag Leave No Trace Ireland and use the #LoveThisPlaceDay
We are also inviting members of the public to enter a competition. All they have to do is via Instagram stories to take a photo or video of their action for Love This Place Day, tag Leave No Trace Ireland and use the #LoveThisPlaceDay.
The competition, with a prize of a €150 gift voucher for the Great Outdoors, will close on Sunday 28th July at midnight. A winner will be chosen from the entries.
Author, outdoor enthusiast and founder of the Hike Life, Roz Purcell, is again supporting National ‘Love This Place Day’ with a special Hike Life event on Friday 26th from 11am to 2pm . To join Roz please go to @thehikelife on Instagram to sign up for this event.
Leave No Trace are also running three community clean-up events for Love This Place Day.
These will be delivered by our Leave No Trace trainers at –
1. Benone Beach, Co. Derry
2. Barna Woods, Galway
3. Lees Road, Clare
You can sign up for these events at https://www.
Leave No Trace is joined in marking National Love This Place Day 2024 by its core partners, including Fáilte Ireland, Sport Ireland, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Department of Rural and Community Development, Dublin City Council, the Office of Public Works, Coillte, and Waterways Ireland. The campaign is also supported by Fingal County Council, Galway County Council, Wicklow County Council.
For further information and guidance on responsible outdoor engagement, visit https://www.
Media Contacts: Derek Cunningham 086 2430535
Leave No Trace Ireland is Ireland’s only outdoor ethics programme, which promotes the responsible use of the outdoors. Through education, research and partnerships, Leave No Trace Ireland enables and supports individuals, communities, organisations, and companies in reducing the environmental impact of outdoor activities.
Sport Ireland is the authority tasked with the development of sport in Ireland. Sport Ireland Outdoors, a function of Sport Ireland, works with a large number of sporting bodies and other organisations to develop and promote a variety of outdoor sports, to support the development of recreational trails throughout Ireland, which are all developed to encourage more people to be active in the great outdoors.
The National Parks and Wildlife Service is the Executive Agency within the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, with primary responsibility for nature conservation, wildlife protection and the presentation and preservation of our National Parks and Nature Reserves.
The Department of Rural and Community Development’s mission is to promote rural and community development and to support vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable communities throughout Ireland. The Department of Rural and Community Development acts as Secretariat for Comhairle na Tuaithe – the Countryside Council – which is made up of representatives from farming organisations, recreational users of the countryside and State bodies with a responsibility or interest in the countryside. Comhairle na Tuaithe endorses Leave No Trace. Embracing Ireland’s Outdoors National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027 is here (https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=
The Office of Public Works (OPW) is a government office that delivers public services for flood protection, managing government properties and heritage services. A core part of its remit is maintaining and presenting Ireland’s most iconic heritage properties, including Ireland’s two World Heritage Sites, 780 National Monuments and over 2,000 acres of gardens and parklands. As the leading agency for flood risk management in Ireland, the OPW minimises the impacts of flooding through sustainable planning. It also manages a significant part of the State’s property portfolio and provides accommodation for government departments, over 700 Garda Properties and approximately 550 offices.
Fáilte Ireland is the National Tourism Development Authority, and its role is to support the long-term sustainable growth in the economic, social, cultural, and environmental contribution of tourism to Ireland.
Waterways Ireland is the cross-border navigational authority responsible for the management, maintenance, development, and promotion of over 1000 km of inland navigable waterways, principally for recreational purposes.
Coillte, Ireland’s state forestry company, is responsible for managing 440,000 hectares of primarily forested lands. Coillte is the nation’s largest forester and provider of outdoor recreation space. It also enables wind-energy on the estate, processes forestry by-products and undertakes nature rehabilitation projects of scale. Coillte delivers the multiple benefits of forestry, including forests for climate, for nature, for wood and for people. For further information visit www.coillte.ie.
Dublin City Council (Irish: Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath) is the authority responsible for local government in the city of Dublin in Ireland.
