Green Limerick: Grant boost for five nature-focused groups

FIVE Limerick community groups who protect and promote local plants, wildlife and nature are getting a major boost with their projects chosen to receive financial assistance.

Fedamore CNS, Kantoher Development Group CLG, Abbeyfeale Community Council, Kilcornan Tidy Towns and Meadowbrook Community Garden have been chosen to get grants to help them implement local action plans.

The plans are being supported under a long-standing partnership between Community Foundation Ireland and its philanthropists with the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

Under the partnership, communities across the country are provided access to expert ecologists to decide the best ways to protect or promote wildlife and then to implement through the Action Plan.

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The latest Limerick groups include Fedamore CNS who are awarded €5,000 to educate, raise awareness, develop active citizenship and nurture positive actions, such as a pollinator corridor of native plants and flowers.

Kantoher Development Group CLG are awarded €3,500 to partner with an ecologist to carry out a biodiversity plan for Killeedy Eco Park for the next phase of development.

Abbeyfeale Community Council are awarded €12,000 for their continued development of a local Ecological Network. Priority measures include actions to protect and promote an understanding of endangered species.

Kilcornan Tidy Towns are being awarded €5,000 for design, fabrication and installation of interpretive signage to highlight unique habitats and species in the local community.

Corbally's Meadowbrook Community Garden is also being awarded €5,000 to promote and encourage organic methods and traditional gardening practices.

Some 252 communities across the country have been supported by the Community Foundation and the Parks Service since 2019.

Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity Christopher O’Sullivan TD announced the grants.