{"id":550190,"date":"2026-07-15T02:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550190\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T02:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:02:20","slug":"15-city-and-county-projects-allocated-funding-for-national-biodiversity-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/550190\/","title":{"rendered":"15 city and county projects allocated funding for National Biodiversity Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifteen nature projects across Galway city and county are receiving funding as part of National Biodiversity Week.<\/a><\/p>\n

Just shy of \u20ac200,000 will be shared among the projects, which range from habitat surveys to green network planning.<\/p>\n

The funding has been announced by Minister of State for Nature, Biodiversity and Heritage, Christopher O Sullivan<\/p>\n

One of the biggest allocations – \u20ac53,000 is going to The Galway City IAS Management & Education Project, while the County Galway Wetlands Survey 2026 – 2028 is receiving \u20ac34,500.<\/p>\n

Galway City Biodiversity Areas Habitat Survey is getting more than \u20ac19,000, while over \u20ac16,500 is going toward a project aimed an monitoring and removing the Alpine Newt in County Galway.<\/p>\n

Just under \u20ac15,000 is going to a county Working with Nature 2026 initiative, with around \u20ac10,000 each going to Galway Raised Bogs Bird Baseline and a management project on Invasive Alien Species.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, around \u20ac8,000 each is going to a Feasibility Study for Reed Bed & Swale between Bothar na dTreabh and Terryland Pond and the West Connacht Islands Invasive Species
Management Programme 2025-2027.<\/p>\n

Other projects to receive smaller batches of funding include:<\/p>\n

\u20ac6,000 for Continuation of Pilot Hedgerow mapping at Menlo
\u20ac4,675.00 for a Green Network Planning – City Tree Map Project
\u20ac3,450 for a Preliminary Lagoon Survey of Camus Bay, Connemara,
\u20ac2,550.00 for the Connacht Biodiversity Officers Conference on ‘Our Road Network – Working for Nature’
\u20ac1,062.50 for Ballyloughane Conservation Grazing Project – Botanical Monitoring and Survey 2026
\u20ac560.77 for Survey of the Invasive Amphipod Dikerogammarus haemobaphes in the Shannon River System and Public Awareness of Aquatic Invasive Species<\/p>\n

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