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.

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.

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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Surveys Swans & Geese Waterbirds Wetlands

December 15, 2025

International Swan Census will take place in January 2026

The results of the last International Swan Census in 2020 showed an increase in Whooper Swan numbers in Ireland – up 24.9% in the Republic of Ireland and up 32%…

Niall Hatch

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Cork

Annual Christmas Walk

************************************ Sunday December 29th 2024 ********************************* Join our Cork branch for their annual Christmas Walk along the Douglas Estuary. For contact: Paul Moore, 087 690 8108 – paulwmoore01@gmail.com Conor O’Keeffe,…