The 2025 All-Ireland Pollinator Plan Council Partner report has been published, and is available to view here: All-Ireland Pollinator Plan Council Partner Report 2025
Now in its tenth year, the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan has gathered support from councils and local authorities on the island of Ireland. In 2023, all local authorities signed up as Council Partners to the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, showing we are now all on the same page when it comes to managing our landscape for pollinators.
The Council Partner Annual Report is a review of the vast range of work overseen by councils for the benefit of pollinators each year. Every Council is different, as reflected in the varied areas of focus and the wide range of actions reported. The intention of this report is to showcase the positive work being carried out by councils, and to provide a mechanism for knowledge exchange.
About the 2025 Council Partner report
Every year, the work of local authorities grows in scale and ambition. In 2025, key areas of work included expanding naturally restored meadows, with innovative methods being deployed to manage these habitats on a large scale. Increasingly, meadows are transforming residential areas where grass was previously tightly mown, yielding unexpected benefits not just for biodiversity but for carbon reduction and the health and wellbeing of the people who live there. Many councils have developed pollinator plans for towns, or wider schemes for mapping existing habitats and creating pollinator pathways. Others have led an inspiring range of workshops, conferences, wild bee festivals and engagement activities. Native hedgerows are being managed for pollinators, local-provenance trees are being planted, ornamental planting in parks supplements the native food supply, and significant efforts continue to reduce pesticide use.
Pollinating insects are still in decline across the island of Ireland, but local populations are increasing where actions have been taken to help them. This shows what we are doing is working and gives us hope that if we continue to take action together, we can create an island where pollinators can survive and thrive. Local authorities have a huge role to play in this, and are already carrying out significant work to protect biodiversity and pollinators, as reflected in the 2025 report.
What’s next?
In the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan 2021-2025, Objective 2 was to make public land more pollinator friendly. We have reached the end of this phase, and thank every local authority who has engaged with the AIPP during this time.
The National Biodiversity Data Centre is delighted to have received funding to deliver the next phase of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan for 2026-2030. In collaboration with our partners, we hope to develop and deliver a much more ambitious third AIPP. The AIPP 2026-2030 will be published in spring 2026.
In this new phase of the AIPP, we want to better support Council Partners by providing more and updated evidence-based resources, more technical advice, and more knowledge exchange opportunities. Taking action for pollinators benefits wider biodiversity and contributes positively to climate, green infrastructure and health and wellbeing initiatives. We want to do more to explain these connections and ensure that pollinator-friendly actions taken by Councils are fully recognised for the variety of benefits they bring.
Read the full 2025 report here: All-Ireland Pollinator Plan Council Report 2025 – PDF
We sincerely thank all our Council Partners for their support of the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan in 2025
Find out more:
All-Ireland Pollinator Plan Council Report 2025
All-Ireland Pollinator Plan 2021-2025 Final Review
Video: Celebrating the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan 2021-2025