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.

PeacePlus Nature

PeacePlus Nature is an ambitious programme to tackle the decline in priority species and habitats in Northern Ireland and the border counties of Ireland. PeacePlus Nature a project supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).

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.

Our News and Events

Roseate-Tern-on-RockabillAdvocacyNewsSeabirds are falling victim to kinks in the food supply chain due to climate change.
September 8, 2026

Seabirds are falling victim to kinks in the food supply chain due to climate change.

If we’ve learned anything from the droughts, wildfires and floods this summer, it’s that climate change is here, and it is going to impact all of us—humans and wildlife alike.…
An Fia Rua: A History of Deer in Ireland, with Joseph Murphy
An Fia Rua: A History of Deer in Ireland, with Joseph Murphy Kildare

An Fia Rua: A History of Deer in Ireland, with Joseph Murphy

Date: April 17, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Naas library, town hall Naas
Our Kildare branch invite you to join them for an evening with Joseph Murphy to discuss A History of Deer in Ireland. For contact: Find us on Facebook (@bwikildare) – birdwatchkildare@gmail.com Chairman: Neil J Bourke