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9:15-9:45 Registration / Coffee

10:00–10:15 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