Ruairí Ó Conchúir, has for more than 25 years worked in the field of integrated river catchment management, farming for conservation and community-based land reform and rural development.

Having spent a decade in Southern Africa, working mostly in land reform, he returned to County Clare in 2001. Since then, he has worked largely in conservation management related projects, including over 10 years in two multi award winning EU LIFE projects, BurrenLIFE – Farming for Conservation in the Burren and in managing the MulkearLIFE project – focused on integrated catchment management on the Lower Shannon SAC (Mulkear Catchment).

He designed and developed the Inagh European Innovation Partnership (EIP) with local farmers in the Upper Inagh River Catchment. This project was focused on farmer-led biodiversity enhancement in a farm, forestry and raised bog area to address habitat fragmentation and enhance farm, bog and riparian biodiversity and improve water quality.

He is the Community Water Officer with the Local Authority Waters Programme (LAWPRO) for Clare, Limerick, and Tipperary.

He lives in the Burren and has a keen interest in environmental education as well as birdwatching and landscape and wildlife photography.