Ireland announced more than €1 million for 53 community conservation projects, including peatland restoration, endangered species research and invasive species work.
Ireland has announced more than €1 million in funding for 53 community conservation projects across 20 counties. The projects are supported through the National Parks and Wildlife Service Peatlands and Natura Community Engagement Scheme for 2026.
The funded work includes research on endangered species, peatland restoration and the removal or management of invasive species. Those are practical tasks that local groups can often understand and deliver well because they know their own places closely.
Community conservation is important because national nature goals need local hands. A peatland, woodland, riverbank or protected habitat is never only a map layer. It is a place near someone’s home, farm, school or walking route.
By funding dozens of projects rather than only a small number of large schemes, Ireland is supporting a wider network of people who can act for nature. The result is not one single headline landscape, but many pieces of careful work happening at once.
Source: Government of Ireland