Tourism can actually boost Wild Atlantic Way biodiversity, says Trinity College Dublin study
Stunning landscapes and wildlife attract tourists to visit Ireland’s tourist spots, but it’s commonly believed that tourism is destroying these habitats.
“Our new research challenges that core assumption,” said Dr Andrew Torsney, School of Natural Sciences who led research with colleague Professor Yvonne Buckley, published today in journal Global Ecology and Conservation.
The TCD researchers chose Derrynane, a village within one of Ireland’s Special Areas of Conservation on the Iveragh Peninsula as the site for study.
Derrynane House is famously the home of Daniel O’Connell, the 19th century MP for Clare who championed Catholic Emancipation. The house and the surrounding National Park are managed by the Office of Public Works (OPW).
The site with its dune habitats rich in biodiversity was selected out of 47 possible tourist sites on the Wild Atlantic Way that were also considered.
“We know that roughly 50pc of protected sites in Europe, and more so in Ireland, have tourism…
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