Take The Love This Place Promise And Celebrate Leave No Trace Ireland’s National ‘Love This Place Day’ This Weekend With Simple Actions To Protect Our Natural Environment
Leave No Trace Ireland is asking businesses and the public to celebrate Love This Place Day on Sunday 28 July. Leave No Trace wants you to take 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. This campaign promotes responsible enjoyment of Ireland’s rich natural heritage of outdoor spaces and environment.
There are several ways that Leave No Trace Ireland and its campaign partners are encouraging people and businesses to celebrate Love This Place Day this Sunday (28 July) including.
1. Take the Love This Place Promise
The Love This Place Promise can be found here.
2. Plan a 2-minute clean-up with friends, family, colleagues, or solo
3. Volunteer with a local community or eco group, such as Tidy Towns.
4. Join a nature walk or hike to appreciate and learn about the natural environment.
Leave No Trace then wants you to share your activity on the day by taking a photo or video of your action for Love This Place Day. Tag Leave No Trace Ireland and use the hashtag #LoveThisPlaceDay
Don’t Forget To Enter The Competition Too!
There’s also a chance to enter a competition to win prize of a €150 gift voucher for the Great Outdoors. All you have to do is take a photo or video of your action for Love This Place Day and post it to via Instagram stories tagging Leave No Trace Ireland and using the hashtag #LoveThisPlaceDay. Entries close on Sunday 28 July at midnight.
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 26 July from 11am to 2pm. To join Roz please go to @thehikelife on Instagram to sign up for this event.
Leave No Trace is also running three community clean-up events for Love This Place Day. These will be delivered by our Leave No Trace trainers at:
Benone Beach, Co. Derry
Barna Woods, Co. Galway
Lees Road, Co. Clare
You can sign up for these events here.
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.”
Leave No Trace is running this campaign in conjunction with its core partners. They include Fáilte Ireland, Sport Ireland, 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.
