Coinciding with International Biodiversity Day on Thursday las, May 22nd, Limerick City and County Council officially launched its Biodiversity Action Plan for 2025-2030, outlining a plan “where biodiversity thrives and all sectors, stakeholders and people work together to restore, protect and enhance nature”.
A key aim of the plan is to focus the efforts and resources of Limerick City and County Council, public sector bodies, nature conservation groups and others to protect and enhance biodiversity and halt biodiversity loss in Limerick and to further incorporate the free ecosystem services that biodiversity provides. Biodiversity includes the variety of life forms on Earth – a diversity of nature, of our habitats, plants, and animals (including us humans) and their interconnections with each other.
Adopted by a full meeting of Limerick City and County Council back on 31st March, the Limerick Biodiversity Action Plan will provide a framework for biodiversity action for the next five years.
“This concise action-based document gives the Council a framework to support and enhance nature in Limerick and prevent its further decline,” Sinead Mc Donnell, Biodiversity Officer, Limerick City and County Council, said. “The Limerick Biodiversity Forum deserve particular recognition for the time and effort, (many of them volunteers) they gave to the drafting of this plan. I look forward to continue working with the Limerick Biodiversity Forum for the duration of the plan. I would also like to pay tribute to all of those who supplied the stunning images included in this document. The majority of the images were taken in Limerick and supplied freely.”
The plan is the culmination of a year’s work that included two public consultation periods (a discussion paper and a draft plan), environmental screening, two workshops for Limerick elected representatives and the presentations of both the discussion paper and the draft plan at each municipal district, along with the formation of the Limerick Biodiversity Forum.
Limerick City and County Council acknowledges the support of the Heritage Council of Ireland in the drafting of this plan. The plan is available in Irish and English on Limerick.ie.
