More than just farmland
Born to hum
Location: Denmark Farm, Lampeter
The Assignment Phototeam
What will 2020VISION be doing?
Our objective is to show the benefits of implementing traditional farming methods and to illustrate that farmland habitats can be a thriving place for wildlife when taken out of intensive management. We will also document Denmark Farm's important environmental education work.
When will 2020VISION be there?
- 26th to 28th June 2011
Where is it?
Denmark Farm is situated near Lampeter, Ceredigion, in Wales.
Why is it important?
Denmark Farm has now become a nationally significant demonstration site and a template for any land that can be taken out of intensive farming management. It conducts highly respected research and monitoring programs that influence land use policy and conservation practice as well as offering an innovative approach to environmental education for all ages and abilities.
What's the project's aim?
The Trust's aim was to see whether the process of degradation caused as a result of intensified farming could be reversed without major interventions or capital expense and to monitor the speed and extent of the return of wildlife.
Who's involved?
Denmark Farm is owned and managed by The Shared Earth Trust which was set up in 1987 in direct response to the decline in wildlife habitat and biodiversity in the farmed countryside.
What's happening there?
Denmark Farm has been taken out of intensive management returning to more traditional farming regimes and allowing each habitat to establish without intervention. The results clearly demonstrate that it is possible to reverse the process of ecological impoverishment and the destruction of biodiversity, and that this can be achieved in only a relatively short time.
