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Countryside & Wetlands

Managing land for birds and wildlife

 

Habitat Restoration

Restoring blanket bog habitats

 

CABB Partner Organisations

Co-operation Across Borders for Biodiversity

 

CABB SACs Conservation Plans

Blanket bog conservation

 

Corncrake Conservation

Protecting Corncrakes and their habitats

The landscape is changing faster than ever. Increasing pressures on land resources are posing serious threats to the existence of our wildlife. Here you can find out about our work on a number of cooperative conservation projects to protect vulnerable species across Ireland.

The CABB project

Cooperation Across Borders for Biodiversity (CABB) is a cross-border INTERREG VA project to protect breeding waders and manage bog habitats in border counties of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

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The Curlew EIP

BirdWatch Ireland is working with partners to protect breeding Curlew in Galway and Leitrim as part of a European Innovation Partnership (EIP) which is funded by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Marine (DAFM), supporting cooperative action at a local level.

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Corncrakes

Corncrakes were one of Ireland’s best-loved and most familiar birds of rural areas.  Efforts to save them have prevented extinction, but they are now confined to part of Donegal and West Connaught.

Corncrake Conservation

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Action for natureAdvocacyFarmland birdsBirdWatch Ireland welcomes the scrapping of the winter stubble rule
October 30, 2025

BirdWatch Ireland welcomes the scrapping of the winter stubble rule

BirdWatch Ireland is pleased that the rule for shallow cultivation of winter stubbles has been scrapped in the latest iteration of the Nitrates Action Programme. It is regrettable, however, that…
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West Cork Bird Race 2026
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West Cork Bird Race 2026 West Cork

West Cork Bird Race 2026

Date: February 1, 2026
Time: 8:30 am
Location: Starts at Scally's Supervalu carpark, Clonakilty
This years West Cork Bird Race is taking place on Sunday 1st February starting at Supervalu in Clonakilty and finishes at O'Donovans Hotel Clonakilty at 6pm sharp! To register your team of four please contact Nicholas Mitchell (treasurer) 087 121 5256 – treasurer@birdwatchirelandwestcork.ie Registration fee is €10.00 which includes finger food at O'Donovans after the race. Any surplus monies will be donated to Cape Clear Bird Observatory. **** The West Cork Bird Race is an annual dawn-to-dusk event held by BirdWatch Ireland West Cork where teams compete to see and record as many bird species as possible within a designated area of West Cork. Objective: Teams of four compete to find and identify the most bird species within the designated time and area **** For further details contact; Fiona O’Neill – 086 813 0650 – secretary@birdwatchirelandwestcork.ie Nicholas Mitchell – 087 121 5256 – treasurer@birdwatchirelandwestcork.ie
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