Ballyteige Burrow Bioblitz
Our group’s flagship project is a BioBlitz for Ballyteige Burrow. This initiative uses a Citizen Science approach, logging every type of flora and fauna encountered by residents and visitors. The resulting detailed inventory represents a huge undertaking toward understanding local biodiversity. This data is critical for monitoring species, assessing habitats, tracking invasive species, and defining necessary buffer corridors.
Click on the following link to find out more at inaturalist.org:
iNaturalist Ballyteigue Burrow BioBlitz Link
CARO
CARO or Climate Action Regional Offices coordinates and supports local government in leading transformative change and measurable climate action across our cities and counties. Their website, caro.ie, is full of useful information. We include here some links their videos on YouTube that provide key information about sand dunes and how to protect them.
Sand Dunes: Erosion and Recovery
Sand Dunes: How we can damage them
Sand Dunes: How we can protect them
CHILDRENS CORNER
The Big Beach Cleanup, Read by Tie Dye Reader Kristie- Written by Charlotte Offsay- Illustrated by Katie Rews
KILMORE QUAY CONSERVATION GROUP PUBLICATIONS
Proposal for Sand Dune Restoration at Ballyteigue Burrow, Kilmore Quay, County Wexford.
Download/Open PDF at this link: Proposal for Sand Dune Restoration(PDF)
Download/Open PDF at this link: 2025 Survey Report (pdf)
ACADEMIC RESEARCH PAPERS
Ecological benefits of tourism management and the challenges of habitat classification
(Torsney and Buckley, 2025)
Link: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:9e5ff045-9c36-40cd-9305-fcf3d9d6bbf4
Conservation of coastal dune habitats in the Atlantic Biogeographical Region : Roadmap for knowledge exchange and networking for the period 2023-2027: Supporting the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
(John Houston, 2023)
Link: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:9d3b9530-4590-4a9e-a30e-eea858754ab4
The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm?
(Geissdoerfer, Savaget, Bocken, Hultink, and Jan, 2017)
Link: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:09048671-57b4-44cd-a05e-139747ed03b0
WIKIPEDIA
Lots of information about protecting sand dunes etc
