Joining FWAG in Northern Ireland

As an independent charity, the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group really needs your support. Farming is the mechanism that has structured our countryside’s landscapes over many generations. With the drive for mass production after the second world war, and extensive use of manufactured fertiliser, many of our habitats and biodiversity were lost. Policy and regulations have been the farmer’s carrot and stick and the countryside has been the recipient of these actions.

FWAG came about because of these extreme changes that moved farming from mixed farming (semi-self sufficiency), to extensive (mono-culture) farming. In this climate a group of concerned English farmers got together to form the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group, which has survived intact today and looks to the future with the farmer/farmland’s sustainable needs as its primary objective.

Conservation and Restoration of habitats are our message, but we are bigger than that, delivering on projects that bring farmers together in Catchment Sensitive schemes that are all inclusive and work beyond march fences. We deliver on food accreditation schemes and are active across England, Scotland and Wales, with some of our more sensitive work stretching to the Isles of Scotland.

FWAG has over 100 advisors, varied in their background, personal and technical experience, some from farming, some from ecological and environmental backgrounds. The beauty of this is a network with a wealth of practical experience.

We offer advice and contacts whenever possible.