Northern Ireland is the least wooded part of the UK and Europe, but its woodland is also being badly affected by invasive species and nitrogen deposits.

For four decades, North West Mountain Rescue Team members have been dropping everything at a moment’s notice and braving all kinds of conditions to save lives.

Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots and his Irish counterpart Charlie McConalogue have been shocked to see first-hand the “devastation” caused by a peat slippage.