Farming and conservation go hand-in-hand in the Burren

Conservation and agriculture can be difficult to reconcile. But in the Burren Arlene Harris says farmers and a local environmental charity are learning from one another

We take for granted the lunar landscape of the Burren. We did primary-school nature projects on its renowned flora, but often forget that it is so unique.

The charity Burren Beo was established in 2009 to preserve what is one of the world’s greatest examples of a glacio-karst landscape, but which 360m years ago was a tropical ocean.