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

Policy and AdvocacySeabirdsCan Ireland and its breeding seabirds remain a match made in heaven under pressures from climate change?
October 6, 2026

Can Ireland and its breeding seabirds remain a match made in heaven under pressures from climate change?

From roughly April to August, Ireland’s coastline transforms into a bustling and vibrant maternity ward for twenty-four species of seabird, with breeding colonies numbering from single digits into the thousands.…
An Outing to Croagh Bay
An Outing to Croagh Bay West Cork

An Outing to Croagh Bay

Date: November 22, 2026
Time: 11:30 am
Location: Meet at Lowertown Church (Church of the Seven Sacraments P81 CT92) on R592 4km west if Schull for car pooling
Our West Cork branch invite you to join them for an outing to Croagh Bay with leader Jez Simms We will try to see wintering ducks and waders. This is a half day outing. For further details or to be added to a mailing list contact: Fiona O’Neill – 086 813 0650 – secretary@birdwatchirelandwestcork.ie Nicholas Mitchell – 087 121 5256 – treasurer@birdwatchirelandwestcork.ie Jez Simms – 087 689 6964