Community of Cork farmers dedicate 10% of land to environmental conservation  

Members of the The Bride Project / Farming With Nature in Castlelyons in north Cork who are banding together to regenerate biodiversity on their lands: Donal Sheehan, project manager; Sinead Hickey, project administrator; Daire Ó hUllacháin, Teagasc, and in front, Sinead Treanor, Farming with Nature. Picture: Dan Linehan

Along the Bride river valley, a community of Cork farmers is dedicating 10% of their land to environmental conservation, as part of a scheme that incorporates the value of biodiversity into everything they produce.

The ‘Biodiversity Regeneration In a Dairying Environment’ (Bride) project began in 2018, and aims to increase and maintain biodiversity on 42 local farms.