SLIDE 1 Gwyn Jones
European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism
gwyn@efncp.org
High Nature Value Farming: lessons from home and abroad
SLIDE 2 Examples of where we can learn from others:
- Need to identify all relevant land, so can target
payments
- Need to link inventories to IACS/LPIS
- Workable monitoring system
- Local project-based approach with output-linked
payments, integrated in CAP
SLIDE 3 HNV farmland is about more than designated sites and priority habitats
Farmland
Semi-natural farmland and features Annex 1 farmland habitats Natura 2000
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Natural England draft map of HNV farmland - based on inventories of priority semi-natural habitats + suites of farmland species.
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Need to capture wider matrix to get both ecological and agricultural context
BAP priority habitats inventory
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- Natural England did local HNV mapping using aerial photos to
capture the wider ‘landscape matrix’, building on inventoried habitats and County Wildlife Sites.
- Field survey in Culm parishes showed the technique is robust.
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BAP Priority Habitats map Devon project draft (semi- natural) HNV map
SLIDE 8 Extent of HNV farmland and % designated
Total extent
area ha HNVF as %
area % HNVF covered by SAC % HNVF covered by SSSI % HNVF covered by County Sites Blackdown Hills 36,860 11 0.1 10 47 Culm 40,628 16 8.5 11 17 South Devon 33,700 20 4 10 47
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HNVF in agri-environment schemes
% of all land in AES (current and classic schemes) % of HNV farmland in AES (current and classic schemes) % HNV farmland in current Higher Level Scheme % of HNV farmland in “classic” schemes Blackdown Hills 47.2 46 11.5 13 Culm 67.5 61 18 17 South Devon 66 70 19 26
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National semi-natural grassland inventories
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Habitat Inventory of Wales – lowland example
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Habitat Inventory of Wales – lowland example
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LPIS-IACS is probably the key to effective targeting, protection and monitoring of HNV farmland
Bulgarian example
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HNV farming identification and monitoring in Navarra
Identification from inventories/ remote sensing On-farm monitoring of features most sensitive to change
SLIDE 17 Type 1: Farmland with a high proportion of semi-natural vegetation
LCM 2000 classification Combined with UAA
Scotland is making a serious effort….
identification; interesting approach to monitoring
- English work stopped?
- Welsh work??
- Nothing in N. Ireland?
SLIDE 18 www.Irishviews.com
2004-09 2010-13
SLIDE 19 www.Irishviews.com
This is a PILLAR 1 scheme!!! ….designed by and embraced by FARMERS!
SLIDE 20 Messages
- HNV farmland is more than designated sites, but provides the
context for many of them…
– Scheme targeting needs to be more ecologically-meaningful in some areas
- Need to take HNV farmland identification more seriously
– Inventories of semi-natural pastures and meadows are key, but Countryside Survey is a big step down that road
- Need to take HNV farmland monitoring more seriously
– but Countryside Survey approach has inspired others already!
- To make things work efficiently, need to link to IACS/LPIS
– some of the EU’s poorest countries are doing it!
- Local projects can be innovative, build trust, enable real
collaboration, be output-linked
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Thank you! www.efncp.org
