Lapwing Recovery at Belfast Harbour Reserve

The project aims to enhance the biodiversity at Belfast Habour Reserve (an ASSI and NCA ), improving conditions for lapwing, a priority species for conservation in Northern Ireland and throughout the UK.
The project aims to:
Undertake grass mowing of the grassland in the Nature Conservation Area and the grassland surrounding the harbour lagoon four times per year, keeping sward levels below 5 cms to provide optimum feeding and roosting conditions for lapwing and other waders and wildfowl.
Removal of Japanese knotweed and re-installation of a sluice pipe – because the lagoon is so shallow there is a real danger of these invasive species completley colonising the area, destroying the roosting and feeding areas which attract other birds to the lagoon.