Photo: Leigh AndersonLough Dan Scout Centre staff member Ben Scott (centre), with Youhanba Wahba, Steven Fan, George Naguib, Taline Mikhaeil and Lovey Habib of the 20th Wicklow Cubs from Bray. Photo: Leigh AndersonCillian Walsh, Dylan Sullivan, Liam Keenan and Daniel Matthews with the Castleknock 175th at Lough Dan. Photo: Leigh AndersonMore than 200 scouts from different groups came together on Saturday and reached a milestone as they planted the 8,000th tree at Scouting Ireland’s Lough Dan Scout and Eco Centre in Roundwood Co Wicklow, as part of the ecological restoration of the site. Scouting Ireland is the largest non-formal education youth movement on the island of Ireland with close to 40,000 members. At Lough Dan, Scouting Ireland has taken on an important role of restoring the former farmland which had declined over a number of decades, become overgrown and bracken spreading across large areas of the site.

Source: Irish Independent February 24, 2026 03:05 UTC