€5 million Pilot Farm Environmental Study to include up to 6,500 Irish farms

The pilot will provide farmers with a new level of information about the habitats and biodiversity of their own farm

The pilot study comes in the middle of a “biodiversity crisis”.

A €5m pilot farm environmental study launched this week will fund individual habitat surveys on around Irish 6,500 farms.

The pilot project launched by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, and the Minister for Land Use and Biodiversity, Senator Pippa Hackett, generates a baseline of habitat and biodiversity data at farm level and will provide the scope for an inventory of farm habitats and biodiversity which can be used to target future agri-environmental schemes and measures.