Webinar with Dr. Brendan Dunford : Farming & biodiversity in the Burren - the lessons I have learned скачать в хорошем качестве

Webinar with Dr. Brendan Dunford : Farming & biodiversity in the Burren - the lessons I have learned

In a 40 minute illustrated presentation, Brendan shares some of the lessons he has learned from working with farmers and nature in the Burren over the past two decades. This includes some of the background to the work of the Burrenbeo Trust and the Burren LIFE Project, and will also go on to discuss how the Burren Programme has pioneered a new approach to support farmers in delivering better outcomes for nature and heritage on their farms. Brendan also outlines the thinking behind the Farming for Nature Project, his hopes for the future of farmland biodiversity in Ireland and how people can support these projects in various ways. From a farming background in Co. Waterford, Brendan Dunford has spent the past 20 years living and working in the Burren region. In 2001 he completed his doctorate on the impact of farming on the heritage of the Burren, later published by Teagasc as ‘Farming and the Burren’. He led the award-winning BurrenLIFE Project (2005-2010), its successor, the pioneering ‘Burren Farming for Conservation Programme’ (2010-2015) and currently manages the new ‘Burren Programme’. Along with his late wife Ann O’Connor, Brendan co-founded Burrenbeo Teo and is secretary of its successor, the Burrenbeo Trust, Ireland’s only landscape-based charity which delivers an extensive annual programme of place-based learning initiatives. Brendan is a former board member of the Heritage Council, a former member of the EPA Advisory Committee and a former Director of the European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism. He is an Ashoka Fellow for Ireland.