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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.

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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.

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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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October 17, 2025

A Season of Remarkable Resightings

The Dublin Bay Birds Project continues to build on long-term monitoring of one of Ireland’s most important breeding colonies of Terns, in Dublin Port. As part of this work, we…
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Outing to Lough Inchin
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Outing to Lough Inchin Cavan

Outing to Lough Inchin

Date: February 7, 2026
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Meet at the carpark in front of Derryheen Church of Ireland H12 FK25
Join our Cavan branch for an outing to Lough Inchin Lough Inchin, located near Ballyjamesduff, is a small yet productive fishing lake. The reserve hosts thousands of migratory birds in the winter, including geese, swans, and ducks. For more details please contact Tom Broe (sec) cavanbirdwatching@gmail.com or Michael McKiernan 086 885 4989.
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