A Pilot Farm Environmental Study Programme
Reference number:
RFT 189190
90700000
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Environmental services
The Farm Environmental Study (FES) Programme objective is to develop a national baseline database of farm scale habitat and biodiversity data along with additional environmental parameters. The programme will focus on
• A data collating exercise bringing together existing national databases on habitats and biodiversity in order to produce an individual farm level data inventory and map
• A farm level survey of habitats both agriculturally productive and semi-natural in order to establish proportion cover at the farm scale
• The condition of selected semi-natural habitats in relation to biodiversity value
The FES will generate a database of habitat and biodiversity data at farm level. A combination of a desk-based data collation exercise in combination with a targeted farm survey will be used to identify areas of productive land, marginal or extensively managed land, semi-natural habitats, and other areas of biodiversity potential at the farm scale.