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Farm wildlife ADVICE
Farm wildlife
Yellowhammer
Alamy
Field margin
Steve Aylward
Hoverfly
Steve Aylward
Lapwing
Adobe Stock
WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU? Farm wildlife report
Suffolk Wildlife Trust offer a range of advice to farmers and landowners, enabling them to enhance, create and connect wildlife habitats on their land.
WHY SUFFOLK WILDLIFE TRUST? We’ve been advising landowners on wildlife conservation for many years, allowing us to safeguard Suffolk’s wildlife at landscape scale. Suffolk Wildlife Trust has a diverse range of experts in both practical and technical aspects of wildlife conservation and can advise from a trusted position of experience and knowledge.
lInitial discussion of farm operation, wildlife interests and priorities.
Farm walk, identifying key wildlife habitats. H
eadline recommendations for habitat improvement, creation or connection.
Map detailing locations of key actions.
Recommendations to inform farm wildlife plan including surveys and monitoring.
Advice is free but donations are welcome.
Water vole
Tom Amrshall
Farm wildlife plan
Surveys if required (see surveying and monitoring leaflet for free and costed surveys).
Advice and actions informed by surveys of species groups.
Proposals integrated with wider farm planning.
A working document detailing recommended management practices.
Monitoring of success.
Complimenting existing agrienvironment schemes or informing new schemes such as free advice on potential options and option placement.
Great Crested Newt
Alamy
Bumblebee
Steve Aylward
Agri-environment schemes
Chargeable scheme design and application service.
Scheme development, from scoping to submission.
Follow-up monitoring of success through SWT’s volunteer monitoring network. Landscape scale collaboration
Facilitation assistance for farmer networks.
Events to inspire action and showcase best practice.
Opportunity identification at the landscape scale.
Skylark
Alamy
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
Helping to position your business to maximise future agri-environment opportunities.
Understanding the wildlife on your farm and its importance in the landscape, ensuring you help it thrive.
Connecting habitats at a landscape scale, enabling wildlife to adapt to climate change and other environmental pressures.
Helping to provide healthy and functioning ecosystems through sustainable farming practices.
Farmland
Steve Aylward
Farmland Wildlife Advisor, Sam Hanks
Sarah Groves
YOUR WILDLIFE ADVISER Sam Hanks, born and bred in rural Suffolk, is a former reserves warden and land management contractor. A qualified environmental scientist with 12 years of ecological land management experience, Sam is well placed to advise on farmland wildlife and the integration of wildlife conservation with farming operations.
Registered charity no 262777
GET IN TOUCH Contact Sam to book your free visit 01473 890089 sam.hanks@suffolkwildlifetrust.org suffolkwildlifetrust.org/farmland-wildlife-advice SWTWildFarms
