Wild Wednesday Webinars

The Wild Wednesday Webinars is a series webinars on the themes of farming, nature and heritage. Co-hosted by the Burrenbeo Trust and the Farming for Nature initiative, they will take place every Wednesday between 8 and 9pm, over the next few weeks. Each webinar will give us an opportunity to virtually meet and listen to a guest speaker as they talk about their ideas, experiences and lessons they have learned in their area of work. There will also be a chance to interact with them through a Q and A session. This series of webinars opens with our very own, Brendan Dunford.

‘Farming & Biodiversity in the Burren – Lessons I have learned’

With Dr. Brendan Dunford

Register for the Webinar at https://bit.ly/WebinarWithBrendan

In a 40 minute illustrated presentation, Brendan will share some of the lessons he has learned from working with farmers and nature in the Burren over the past two decades. This will include some of the background to the work of the Burrenbeo Trust and the Burren LIFE Project, and will also go on to discuss how the Burren Programme has pioneered a new approach to support farmers in delivering better outcomes for nature and heritage on their farms. Brendan will also outline the thinking behind the Farming for Nature Project, his hopes for the future of farmland biodiversity in Ireland and how people can support these projects in various ways. His talk will be followed by 15 minutes of Q & A.

From a farming background in Co. Waterford, Brendan Dunford has spent the past 20 years living and working in the Burren region. In 2001 he completed his doctorate on the impact of farming on the heritage of the Burren, later published by Teagasc as ‘Farming and the Burren’. He led the award-winning BurrenLIFE Project (2005-2010), its successor, the pioneering ‘Burren Farming for Conservation Programme’ (2010-2015) and currently manages the new ‘Burren Programme’. Along with his late wife Ann O’Connor, Brendan co-founded Burrenbeo Teo and is secretary of its successor, the Burrenbeo Trust, Ireland’s only landscape-based charity which delivers an extensive annual programme of place-based learning initiatives. Brendan is a former board member of the Heritage Council, a former member of the EPA Advisory Committee and a former Director of the European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism. He is an Ashoka Fellow for Ireland.

The Webinar is free to attend but spaces are limited so do register as soon as possible.

Attending the webinar requires you to have a free Zoom app on your device (You can download it at www.zoom.us). Upon registration on the above link, you will be sent an email invitation to join the webinar and will be prompted to download the free Zoom app if you don’t have it already.

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