Safeguarding the Burren’s heritage

THE Burren is widely regarded as one of Europe’s most outstanding and distinctive landscapes, with a rich plant life and a cultural heritage stretching back 6,000 years.

But, its environment has also been identified as one of the world’s most endangered.

To say the Burren is a fragile landscape urgently in need of protection and care — especially given the enormous changes in land use there over the past three decades — is an understatement.