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News 2024
Supporting Farmland Biodiversity Research
Munster Agricultural Society is supporting UCC’s Agricultural Science research by philanthropically funding a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD in Farmland Biodiversity.
This will significantly impact Ireland by contributing vital research to underpin the sustainability of Irish agriculture through the effective integration of farmland biodiversity. University College Cork is leading research on farmland biodiversity in close collaboration with Teagasc, Moorepark.
Ireland’s biodiversity has been shaped by millennia of agricultural activity. Our farmland boasts a rich diversity of habitats such as hedgerows, field margins, ponds and streams, native woodland, bogs, and species-rich meadows and pastures.
As Teagasc notes, “Irish biodiversity therefore depends on farmland habitats.” Approximately ten percent of important habitats in Ireland are protected, including hedgerows, native woodland, bogs, and species-rich grassland.