Funding to protect wildlife in the Duhallow region

RURAL communities hold the key to nature conservation and, by so doing, can ensure their own survival — was the message from a conference of environmental experts in Newmarket, Co Cork. 

Newmarket is in the heart of the historic Duhallow region through which flows the Blackwater and other noted fishing rivers and where farmers, anglers and a wide range of people are already involved in the conservation of protected species. This region of sylvan, rolling countryside is showing the way to other parts of Ireland and the EU.

EU LIFE funding is a special funding stream to assist EU member states improve the conservation of wildlife of European importance. The two-day conference, hosted by IRD Duhallow, a rural development company based in Newmarket, marked the end of a four and half year EU LIFE project, known as DuhallowLIFE.