S.I. No. 205/1981 - Nature Reserve (Wexford Wildfowl Reserve) Establishment Order, 1981

S.I. No. 205 of 1981.

NATURE RESERVE (WEXFORD WILDFOWL RESERVE) ESTABLISHMENT ORDER, 1981

I, PATRICK POWER, Minister for Fisheries and Forestry, after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture and the Minister for Transport and the Commissioners for Public Works in Ireland, being satisfied that the land specified in Article 2 of the following Order and owned jointly by the Minister for Fisheries and Forestry and the Irish Wildbird Conservancy, being land to which section 15 of the Wildlife Act, 1976 (No. 39 of 1976), applies, forms both a polderland agri-ecosystem and a habitat of international importance of a number of species of water-fowl which are of scientific interest, including the Greenland White-fronted goose, and that the said habitat is likely to benefit if measures are taken for its protection and that it is desirable to establish the land as a nature reserve, and that the proper management of the land as a nature reserve would not be precluded by any interest of the Irish Wildbird Conservancy in or over the land and that the fact that the Irish Wildbird Conservancy has an interest will not inhibit the proper management of the said land by the Minister for Fisheries and Forestry as a nature reserve, for the purpose of conserving the said habitat do hereby, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 15 of the said Act, as adapted by the Fisheries (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1978 ( S.I. No. 195 of 1978 ), order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Nature Reserve (Wexford Wildfowl Reserve) Establishment Order, 1981.

2. (1) It is hereby declared that the land specified in paragraph (2) of this Article shall constitute and there is hereby established a nature reserve.

(2) The lands referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article are all those parts of the lands situate in the townland of North West Slob and county of Wexford, other than any part thereof which forms part of a public road, and which are referred to in the map contained in the Schedule to this Order and thereon delineated in red.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 3rd day ofJune, 1981.

PATRICK POWER,

Minister for Fisheries and

Forestry.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The order establishes part of the lands situate in the townland of North West Slob, Co. Wexford as a nature reserve so that it can be managed in such a way as to ensure the conservation of the water-fowl habitat and the polderland agri-ecosystem which it constitutes.

WEXFORD WILDFOWL RESERVE