How The Irish Wildlife Society Works

No Waste, No “Expenses”—100% of your money goes to pay for the land.

Rather than sending money to an NGO, which then spends loads on a board of directors and staff and offices and admin…

• Members pay nothing at first; they just commit to paying monthly (e.g., €20 shares).
• Each share gives the member a right to visit and a nominal piece of the land.
• Shareholders are able to camp on the land (within reason and within rules!).
• For rented land, members send a monthly amount via direct debit to the landowner.

Each parcel of land is its own entity and runs independently of the others. Members run it themselves, within the society’s rules. It’s only open to the members of that particular project, not to the public.

Rough calculation (based on renting, though loans to buy and own the land are another method):

€300 per acre per year (in most places, a great overestimate).
€25 per person per month gives 1 acre each. So if we find a 50-acre plot, we need 50 shares.