To build economic and environmental resilience by developing ‘sustainable intensification’ of agriculture in line with GWCT’s farmer-led Working Conservation approach.
To provide a Wales-wide community of farmers with a platform to share information and demonstrate how to increase biodiversity and combat climate change.
To share GWCT science and provide advice to farmers, helping them to identify knowledge gaps for further research in order to provide practical solutions to problems.
To demonstrate to Welsh Government, ministers and civil servants what farmers want to do for the environment and put them at the heart of policymaking.
To engage with the wider community of farmers, businesses, NGOs, advisors, students and schools to improve understanding of agricultural and environmental issues.
Farming Community shared objectives
We want to be part of the solution to mitigate climate change and reverse biodiversity decline within a productive, sustainable farmingbusiness system.
We want to work to increase wildlife on our farms particularly threatened species such as the curlew, barn owl, lapwing, hedgehog, and yellowhammer.
We support GWCT’s three-legged-stool approach to conservation of vulnerable farmland birds combining habitat creation, winter feeding and predation management.
We are happy to show people the work that we are doing on the farm to integrate nature with emissions reductions and food production.
We recognise the benefits of collaboration and knowledge exchange to deliver nature recovery on a landscape scale.
What GWCT Wales can offer farmers
Support knowledge exchange through live and online events and provide an information network through digital channels including website, apps and email newsletters.
Seek funding to enable delivery of environmental objectives on individual farms and to support collaborative landscape-scale initiatives such as Farmer Clusters.
Partner with farmers to adapt and tailor environmental measures to specific sites and farming systems in order to deliver outcome-based conservation.
Present Welsh Government, Natural Resources Wales and policy influencers with evidence of the best approach for restoring the environment within a profitable farming system.
Emphasise the need for a profitable farming business to underpin farmers’ ability to combat climate change and increase biodiversity.
