The European Forum for Nature Conservation and Pastoralism (EFNCP) wish to appoint a High Nature Value Farming Ireland Officer on a short-term contract to 31/12/2010, with the possibility of subsequent extension depending on the availability of funding. This project is funded by the Heritage Council and by the European Commission (DG Environment).

EFNCP is a European network, registered in the UK, which aims to increase awareness of the positive relationship between less intensive farming systems and biodiversity and, since these systems are largely economically and socially marginalised, of the policy implications of this link. EFNCP has had Irish involvement for many years; it held a major international conference in the Burren in 2000 and carried out two research contracts for the Heritage Council on the likely impact of the 2000-6 RDP on the natural heritage and on High Nature Value (HNV) farmland in Ireland.

For more information see the document below.