Transcript High Nature Value farming in Strandzha

High Nature Value farming
in Galaţi
Koen De Rijck - for EFNCP / WWF-DCP seminar, 17-18 April 2008
Outline
• HNV farming examples in Galaţi
– What is it not?
– So where is it?
• Type 1
• Type 2
• Type 3
HNVF Concept
• High Nature Value farmland are those
areas in Europe where agriculture is a
major (usually the dominant) land use and
where that agriculture supports, or is
associated with, either a high species
and habitat diversity or the presence of
species of European conservation
concern, or both
HNVF Typology
• Type 1: Farmland with a high proportion of
semi-natural vegetation
• Type 2: Farmland dominated by low
intensity agriculture or a mosaic of seminatural and cultivated land and small-scale
features
• Type 3: Farmland that supports rare
species or a high proportion of the
European or World population of a species
Key features of HNVF
• Always low-intensity
• Always high proportion of semi-natural
vegetation
• Often a mosaic of habitats