More and more people outside and inside academic specialisms are becoming aware of the pressing need to halt dramatic losses in biodiversity worldwide.
The EU H2020 project, FRAMEwork is mounting an ambitious response to these critical problems.
The project will create a Biodiversity Sensitive Farming System that will encourage and enable farmers to conserve biodiversity, promote a rebalancing of agriculture in a way
that capitalises on the value of native biodiversity, and
improve the capacity of farming to deliver food and
nutritional security in the face of climate change, disease pandemics and other pressures on the system.
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Dr Roger Draycott
Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Head of Advisory Services and has been a scientist and advisor for 24 years undertaking research into farmland birds and wildlife, working closely with farmers and land managers to improve the farmed environment.
Dr Draycott currently manages a team of seven GCT Farmland Conservation Advisors. The Advisory service provides science-based practical advice to farmers and runs a wide range of courses for farmers, gamekeepers and land managers on a diverse range of topics including farmland conservation, game management, woodland management and CAP. RD manages two large Public/Private Sector funded initiatives to help deliver the UK Government’s National Pollinator Strategy. This involves working closely with farmers at the landscape scale to create and manage wild pollinator and farm wildlife habitat across large areas of farmland.