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.

Corncrake Conservation

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September 18, 2026

Birds on the Green: Our Pitches, Their Habitat

Together with Louth County Council, we have launched the ‘Birds on the Green: Our Pitches, Their Habitat’ project. As part of this project, we are looking for your records of…

Tara Adcock

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Sligo

An Outing to Inch Wildfowl Reserve, Burt, Co Donegal

Date: February 16, 2025
Time: 9:00 am
Location: Met at Cartron Carpark
Our Sligo branch invite you to join them for an outing to Inch Wildfowl Reserve, Burt, Co Donegal Each year Inch Wildfowl Reserve is host to thousands of wintering wildfowl. This includes over three thousand Greylag geese and hundreds of whooper swans. The site is also alive during the summer months as a wide variety of birds, including a particularly noisy colony of sandwich tern and black headed gulls, raise their young around the lake. The site includes an 8km looped path, 3 carparks and a number of purpose built bird hides. Contact details below; Thelma Hunter (Sec) – 086 795 3349 sligobirdwatch@gmail.com Michael Bell (Chair) – 085 175 1000 nature.learn1@gmail.com