New Nature Reserve planned for Co. Offaly
Speaking at an event in the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny City on Monday October 14th, Minister Malcolm Noonan announced his intention to designate the NPWS managed State lands at Boora in County Offaly as the new ‘Boora Farmland Birds Nature Reserve’. The 600 acre site, actively managed by NPWS, is the location of one of our rarest native breeding farmland birds, the grey partridge. The NPWS habitats and species management regime there has resulted in associated benefits for other declining...
