SPA Rio Jarama & Henares, Spain

HNV Farming & Biodiversity

Panorama

Cereal steppes (Spain)

This landscape is typical of large areas of the Spanish interior that are dominated by extensive cereal cropping favouring the maintenance of a highly diverse steppeland bird community, including many species of conservation concern.

more

Location: SPA Rio Jarama & Henares, Spain
Liébana, Spain

HNV Farming & Biodiversity

Panorama

Liébana, Spain

The Liebana valley, with an important area included in the National Park "Picos de Europa", has one of the most important limestone formations of Atlantic Europe.

more

Location: Liébana, Spain
Southwest Ulster and North Connacht, Ireland

HNV Farming & Biodiversity

Panorama

SW Ulster and North Connacht, Ireland

Lying in the northwest corner of Ireland and straddling two provinces, Ulster and Connacht, this agricultural area high in semi-natural vegetation has been farmed since Neolithic times.

more

Location: Ben Bulben, Gleniff and Glenade Complex
Wolferskopf

HNV Farming & Biodiversity

Panorama

Saargau, Germany

Large site encompassing all typical habitats of this "Muschelkalk" region.

Orchid-rich dry grasslands, lowland hay meadows, orchards, rocky slopes with scree and different forest communities.

more

Location: Wolferskopf
Muntii Ciucului

HNV Farming & Biodiversity

Panorama

Csik Mountains, Romania

The name of the site is derived from a mountain basin of the Eastern Carpathians, called Csik Basin.

The basin got its name from the Weatherfish (Misgurnus fossilis) that was once very abundant in the floodplain marshes.

more

Location: Muntii Ciucului

The concept of High Nature Value farming developed from a growing recognition that the conservation of biodiversity in Europe depends on the continuation of low-intensity farming systems.


European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism
Online: http://www.hnv-farming.eu/
Date: 2024/03/29
© 2024 EFNCP – All rights reserved.