Countryside & Wetlands

Managing land for birds and wildlife

CABB Partner Organisations

Co-operation Across Borders for Biodiversity

Habitat Restoration

Restoring blanket bog habitats

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

Our News and Events

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas Policy and Advocacy Seabirds

July 3, 2025

BirdWatch Ireland Publishes 73 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas for Seabirds in Ireland

These sites should be the basis for new Protected Areas and inform the location of offshore wind farms. Check out our Seabird IBAs webpage and the interactive map. Today, on July…

Oonagh Duggan