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By directly investing in communities, there is the potential to support long-term conservation; whereby experience and expertise is developed and retained by a competent and dedicated workforce, living and working in their local area. Building capacity to engage in this type of work has two broad benefits; it will deliver social benefits for people in these areas (e.g. through creating opportunities for local employment) whilst improving the ecological quality of habitats. A group (D\u00falra) is already up and running in Connemara\/South Mayo with 17 full-time employees and two other groups are well on the way to getting established in North Mayo and West Donegal. We also launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturacommunities.ie\/\">Natura Communities website<\/a>, which is a hub with background information on the importance of blanket bogs, case studies on the delivery of restoration\/conservation projects and funding opportunites, which will hopefully encourage communities on a pathway towards protecting and conserving our precious blanket bogs. The launch of the website was coupled with the launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturacommunities.ie\/community-resources\/funding-opportunities\/natura-communities-seed-fund\/\">Nature Communities Seed Fund<\/a>, a small grant to help communities mobilise complementary funding for blanket bog restoration projects. 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