Integrating wildlife management in farming systems

Environmentalists are now coming to recognise the links between wildlife and farming systems, and to see that many valued habitats can only be maintained by developing new environmentally orientated farming practices.

Early farming and pastoral systems may have largely worked within the existing environment, rather than against it, and in many cases would have actually increased biodiversity. It has been estimated that biodiversity in southern England peaked in the mid-18th century, during the 'first wave of modernity', but has since declined as farming systems have become more intensive and specialised.

To develop a realistic environmental policy, a detailed typology of farming systems is needed, relating wildlife and biological attributes to broad management practices. Such a typology should map the distribution of each system and describe its historical development, and then attempt to predict its future under different policy options. The better understanding that this would generate would also help to build an effective partnership between farmers and conservationists.

1. Using agroecology
2. Restoring biodiversity in agriculture
3. Integrating nature conservation and rural development
4. Ensuring sustainable agricultural development
5. Conserving wildlife

1. Promoting conservation orientated grazing regimes

1. Improving wild animal management

1. Providing incentives to farmers for biodiversity conservation
2. Promoting joint farmer and environmentalist activities
3. Managing wild renewable resources through local communities

1. European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism
2. Successful Wildlife Management On a Working Farm: A Case Study
3. Integrating Wildlife Conservation into the Management of Cameroon’s Cacao Agricultural Landscapes
4. Livestock's contribution to the protection of the environment
5. Biodiversity conservation and agricultural sustainability: towards a new paradigm of ‘ecoagriculture’ landscapes
6. Orchard Wildlife Management - An Integrated Approach
7. Principles for Conserving Biodiverse Agricultural Landscapes
8. Impact and Value of Wildlife in Pastoral Livestock Production Systems in Kenya: Possibilities for Healthy Ecosystem Conservation and Livestock Develo
9. A Common Codex for Integrated Farming
10. Can Livestock and Wildlife Coexist? An Interdisciplinary Approach
11. Wildlife-friendly farming versus land sparing
12. How to conserve wildlife on working farms
13. Study finds potential benefits of wildlife-livestock coexistence in East Africa
14. Livestock and Wildlife Interactions