Four European Innovation Partnership projects to be extended until 2023

It means Duncannon Blue Flag, Caomhnú Arann, The Conservation of Breeding Curlew in Ireland, and MacGillycuddy Reeks, will be able to continue their agri-environmental work until the start of the next CAP Strategic Plan in 2023.

The Curlew Conservation EIP aims to offer farmers training in new skills such as predator control and habitat management to stabilise, and in the longer term, it hopes to increase the number of breeding pairs of Curlews identified in the two focus areas. File photo

Four of Ireland's European Innovation Partnership (EIP) projects have had their funding extended for another year.

The extra funding means the groups, which include Duncannon Blue Flag, Caomhnú Arann, The Conservation of Breeding Curlew in Ireland, and MacGillycuddy Reeks, will be able to continue their agri-environmental work until the start of the next CAP Strategic Plan in 2023.