Our Expertise

Consulting & Advisory Services

• Providing advice on biodiversity-friendly farming practices (grassland habitat type management, pollinators, conservation grazing, organic farming, agroforestry, CAP measures/interventions, agri-environmental schemes, …);

• providing individual expert and technical guidance to farmers to help them meet biodiversity related objectives;

• providing advice on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) measures/interventions;

• providing advice on how to protect, restore and improve biodiversity in agricultural systems and landscapes;

• designing and implementing management- and result-based agri-environmental-climate schemes/measures for biodiversity;

• preparation of management programmes for Natura 2000 sites and protected areas;

• monitoring the implementation of environmental and agricultural legislation;

• checking the achievement and the realization of the objectives of the Birds Directive and the Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora;

• providing advice in and finding innovative financial solutions and mobilising private investments for protecting and restoring biodiversity.

Field surveying

• Grassland habitat type mapping;

• designing, planning and executing biodiversity monitoring;

• collecting in-situ data for Earth Observation and Remote sensing technologies;

• collecting agri-environmental, biological, ecological, environmental, biodiversity, vegetation, land use, agricultural and statistical data.

Research

• Conducting research in the field of biodiversity of agricultural landscapes;

• conducting advanced geospatial analysis;

• assessing the effects of different agricultural management practices and various instruments of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on biodiversity;

• evaluating the effectiveness of various environmental and Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) measures/interventions linked to biodiversity;

• assessing and measuring the delivery of agri-environment-climate public goods from farmers;

• conducting research in the field of innovative financial solutions.