Help to Shape BBOWT's Wildlife and Farming Advisory Service

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Agricultural policy in the UK is on the cusp of major changes. Whilst there is a lot of uncertainty about how the policy will work in practice, there are potentially huge opportunities for innovation in farming practice, to support farmers to produce food for our country, whilst creating healthy and thriving landscapes.

The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) want to work with the farming and landowning community across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire to support more sustainable farming and land management practices, and create and restore habitats across agricultural landscapes.

This work will help support our vision for nature’s recovery - to enable wildlife to recover and thrive. A thriving and healthy natural environment will underpin our ability to grow food sustainably into the future.

To achieve this, BBOWT are developing a paid-for wildlife and farming advisory service. This service will harness our 60 years of environmental land management experience, managing 2700 hectares of freehold and leased land (800 hectares of which is in agricultural use), and extensive environmental expertise, helping to maximise the environmental potential of land across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire.

We are interested in understanding your interest in accessing BBOWT’s new paid-for wildlife and farming advisory service and invite you to complete the survey below.

We anticipate this survey should take around 5 mins, and thank you in advance for taking the time to complete it.

If you are interested in the service BBOWT will contact you to find out more about the specific circumstances on your farm and how this new service might assist you in managing it in a wildlife friendly way.

For your chance to win a FREE one-to-one farming and wildlife consultation with BBOWT, please make sure you enter your contact details below!

The survey will be open until 25 September 2020.

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Simon Collins *

simonjhcollins@gmail.com *

077990 618980

If you would like to keep informed about the official launch of our wildlife and farming service, and are happy for BBOWT to contact you by e-mail about then please tick the checkbox *

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Section 1: About your farm or landholding

1. What is your farm or landholding’s postcode? *

2. Which of the following categories most accurately describes your situation? *

I own and manage my land

I manage the land (e.g., tenant farmer or farm manager) on behalf of the owner

Other:

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Section 2: Interest in accessing BBOWT’s new paid for wildlife and farming advisory service

3. Would you be interested in engaging BBOWT’s service to assist you in accessing land management schemes e.g. Countryside Stewardship, Woodland Management, and the new Environmental Land Management scheme? *

Yes

Maybe

4. If you answered yes to question 3, which options in the administration and management of entry into agri-environment schemes would you be interested in? Please tick all that apply.

Planning – Assessment of the landholding to assist with the selection of agri-environment options.

Application – Assistance in completing an agri-environment scheme application.

Delivery – Assistance in delivering the required objectives of agri-environment schemes.

Compliance monitoring – Monitoring to ensure that the required agri-environment scheme targets are achieved.

Self monitoring – Assistance in establishing monitoring schemes to self-assess nature recovery objectives.

Other:

5. Would you be interested in engaging BBOWT’s service to assist you in facilitating access to environmental assurance schemes (e.g., LEAF)? *

Yes

Maybe

6. Would you be interested in engaging BBOWT’s service to gain access to new revenue streams that will support more wildlife friendly land management (e.g. Environment Agency flood management schemes, biodiversity or carbon offsets)? *

Yes

Maybe

7. Would you be interested in engaging BBOWT’s service to support your own independent land management initiatives? *

Yes

Maybe

8. If you answered Yes to Question 7 which of the following paid for services would you be interested in? Please tick all that apply.

Wildlife and land management advice e.g., one-to-one advisory meetings and site visits

Environmental audit and opportunities assessment of the current landholding e.g., compiling existing conservation priorities and making recommendations for environmental improvements

Developing farm wildlife management plans

Developing wildlife monitoring schemes

Arranging the delivery of land management on farms to support better wildlife management, e.g., hedgerow restoration

Other:

9. Would you be interested in engaging BBOWT’s service to develop a consortia of landowners (individuals, companies, councils and NGOs) to develop funding bids for capital works to support landscape scale wildlife interventions on agricultural land (e.g. rewilding; water catchment restoration) *

Yes

Maybe

10. Would you be interested in engaging BBOWT’s service to facilitate a farmer cluster in your area? This would help bring farmers, foresters, and other land managers together to work cooperatively to prioritise improvements to the local natural environment at a landscape scale. *

Yes

Maybe

11. If this survey has prompted you to think of particular things you would be interested in engaging BBOWT’s service, please specify here:

Thank you for your assistance in completing this survey.

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