4.10.3 Habitat and Landscape Features of Importance for Biodiversity

There are many habitats and important landscape features that are of particular importance

for landscape character throughout Ireland. Such areas include, hedgerows, woodlands and

other field boundary types such as stone walls and ditches, rivers, streams and riparian zones,

canals and wetlands.

It is important that these areas are protected and enhanced where possible, as these

landscape features and habitats cannot be sustained in isolation from one another as they

provide ecological ‘corridors’ that support the movements of species necessary to maintain

biodiversity.