Crann was launched on World Environment Day, June 5, 1986. The motivation behind the organization was to put broadleaved trees back on the agenda so that Ireland could at some stage in the future become self sufficient in all of its timber needs.
Back in 1986 broadleaved trees were seen by the majority of foresters as amenity trees. Irish forestry was only producing fast grown softwood timber from single species crops of north American spruce and pine. This left Irish joiners and related industry no alternative but to import all their hardwood timbers. A significant proportion of these hardwoods, around 65%, came from tropical countries.
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