1. High Nature Value farming in Galaţi
Koen De Rijck - for EFNCP / WWF-DCP seminar, April 2008

2. Outline HNV farming examples in Galaţi What is it not? So where is it?
Type 1
Type 2
Type 3

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

9. 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

11. Key features of HNVF Always low-intensity
Always high proportion of semi-natural vegetation
Often a mosaic of habitats