High Nature Value farming High Nature Value farming in Galaţiin 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 semi-natural 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