Programme
9:15-9:45 Registration / Coffee
10:0010:15 Welcome Kathy Hodder, Bournemouth University /Barbara Smith, GWCT
Session 1 Chair - Nick Sotherton
10:15 10:30 Improving the success of agri-environment schemes James Bullock, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
10:30 10:45 Environmental Stewardship - more biodiversity? Paul Simpson, Newlands Farm
10:45 11:00 Understanding winter distribution of thrushes in grasslands Alison Poole & Richard Stillman, Bournemouth University
11:00 -11:15 How does food availability affect seed-eating farmland birds? David Baker & Richard Stillman, Bournemouth University
COFFEE
Session 2 – Chair - James Bullock
11:45- 12:00 Farmland as habitat for waders
Andrew Hoodless, GWCT
12:00 – 12:15 Insect conservation on farmland
John Holland, GWCT
Session 2 – Chair - James Bullock Continued
12:15 – 12:30 Agricultural change and conservation in the Avon Valley
Andrew Fielder, Natural England
12:30-12:45 The Grazing Animals Project
Jim Swanson, GAP
12:45-13.00 The organic farming contribution
Ian Alexander, Natural England
13:00-13:15 From the ground up: a farmer's view of biodiversity
Will Best, Manor Farm
LUNCH
Session 3 Chair - Peter Thompson
14:00 – 14:30 Discussion session: Cultivating collaboration in Wessex
14:30 – 14:45 Biomass crops and biodiversity
Rufus Sage, GWCT
14:45 - 15:00 Arable plant conservation - targeting important sites,
Kate Still, Plantlife
15:00 – 15:15 Landscapes and carbon management
Adrian Newton & Elena Cantarello, Bournemouth University
15:15 – 15:30 Ecology & impacts of sika in grass-heath agricultural mosaics
Anita Diaz & Antonio Uzal Fernandez, Bournemouth University
15:30 -15:45 Pastures New, Making wildlife-rich grasslands work
Emily Newton, Dorset Wildlife Trust
TEA - DEPART
