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Limerick Biodiversity Plan 2025-2030 launches on International Biodiversity Day
Pictured at the launch of the Limerick Biodiversity Plan 2025-2030 were Mayor of Limerick John Moran, Sinead McDonnell, Biodiversity Officer, Cathal Brodie, Senior Executive Scientist and Aidan Finn, Senior Engineer. Picture by Kieran Ryan-Benson
Limerick City and County Council (LCCC) has officially launched the Limerick Biodiversity Action Plan 2025-2030 to mark International Biodiversity Day
The launch of the Action Plan 2025-2030 coincides with International Biodiversity Day on May 22, during National Biodiversity Week 2025.
The vision outlined in the plan is for a Limerick “where biodiversity thrives and all sectors, stakeholders and people work together to restore, protect and enhance nature”.
Biodiversity includes the variety of life forms on Earth. It is this diversity of nature, of our habitats, plants, and animals (including us humans) and their interconnections with each other.
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The plan will provide a framework for biodiversity action for the next five years. Limerick City and County Council acknowledges the support of the Heritage Council of Ireland in the drafting of this plan.
A key aim of the plan is to focus the efforts and resources of LCCC, public sector bodies, nature conservation groups and others to protect and enhance biodiversity and halt biodiversity loss in the city and county and to further incorporate the free ecosystem services that biodiversity provides.
Sinead Mc Donnell, Biodiversity Officer, Limerick City and County Council, said, “This concise action-based document gives the Council a framework to support and enhance nature in Limerick and prevent its further decline. 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 was adopted by a Full Meeting of Limerick City and County Council on the 31st March 2025 and is available in Irish and English on Limerick.ie
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