The park is owned by Cork City Council while the recreation areas are managed by the Glen Resource and Sports Centre.
Over the history of the park, over 3 million tonnes of waste from Cork city were landfilled there. Currently, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) monitors the licensing of the park and the landfill area is lined with plastic.
The last survey of native Irish woodlands was carried out over a decade ago. It found about 1,300 native woodland areas, half of which were smaller than six hectares, and only about 40 were larger than 50 hectares, demonstrating the massive level of habitat fragmentation in Ireland today. Still, for a country where only about 2% of our woodland is native we have lots of native tree species; 36 trees and shrubs in total. The top ten native Irish trees in order of abundance in our native woodlands are presented in this article.
