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00:07 Through our Nature Positive Dairy project at RSBB, we've been working in partnership
00:11 with the Dairy Council and their processors to look at how we can restore nature on dairy
00:15 farms in Northern Ireland.
00:16 We've been working with the processors and some of their farmers to look at what options
00:21 there are to embed nature on their farms.
00:23 There's been two phases to the project.
00:25 First of all, we've been developing a best practice guide for farmers called Nature Positive
00:30 Dairy Farming, and it sets out the options for restoring nature on dairy farms.
00:34 So a dairy farmer can understand what he or she can do.
00:38 And we've also been undertaking a number of assessments of five different farms in Northern
00:42 Ireland, doing an opportunity map to see where the opportunities are to embed nature on those
00:48 farms.
00:49 So we've been working on this just over the last year or so.
00:52 A number of farmers have had their biodiversity surveyed as part of the whole project, really
00:58 to look at what they're doing in terms of their hedgerows in particular, but also other
01:03 biodiversity measures on their farms.
01:04 So really pleased to see that the outworkings of this now come into fruition, that the farmers
01:10 themselves involved have been very positively exposed to what they're doing.
01:13 Some of them didn't realise just even in terms of what they're doing in terms of biodiversity
01:16 and the positive work they're doing.
01:18 So hopefully I say this guide really provides a series of options for farmers to consider
01:23 in their own farms going forward, how they can improve their biodiversity and certainly
01:28 improve wildlife and the nature.
01:33 The intention is that this kind of work could then be undertaken on the farm to scale up
01:37 nature restoration across the farm landscape, particularly the intensively farmed landscape
01:41 where much of our nature has been lost.
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