Responsibility for the upkeep of Killykeen is through the state's commercial forestry service Coillte together with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) where Lough Oughter and its associated loughs are protected under the EU Habitats Directive as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and a Special Protection Area (SPA) for wildlife and particularly wintering birds.
He was Chief Scientist of the UK Nature Conservancy Council 1989-1990, Chief Executive of the Australian Nature Conservation Agency and Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (1990-1997) and Secretary of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme and Director of its Division of Ecological Sciences 1999-2003.
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The property was given in 1980 to the Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service to extend the Edmund Kennedy National Park.
The reservoir at Poulaphouca has been designated as a Special Protection Area by the National Parks and Wildlife Service and is of international importance for its Greylag Goose population.