This charter outlines the aims of the farming community and explains how GWCT can support Welsh farmers.
Aims
- Profitable farming alongside working conservation.
- Platform for Welsh farmers to demonstrate their great work.
- Portal for GWCT to share science to help farmers.
- Show Welsh Government the great work that farmers do.
- Engage with the whole rural community.
Farming Community shared objectives
- We believe that farmers are the solution to mitigate climate change and increase biodiversity.
- Increase wildlife on farms alongside profitable farming.
- GWCT three-legged stool approach: habitat, food, and predation control.
- Show people the work we are doing to increase biodiversity.
- Believe in a collaborative approach to deliver nature recovery on a landscape scale.
What GWCT Wales can offer farmers
- Support knowledge exchange between us and farmers.
- Seek funding for collaborative landscape approaches such as farmer clusters.
- Work with farmers to show adaptive approach to conservation.
- To influence policymakers through practical science and working with farmers.
- Emphasise that profitable farming comes first to enable increase in biodiversity.
