Last call for Farming Award entries
UFU & RSPB are urging Northern Irish farmers to enter the new competition, "Nature of Farming Award".
If you are doing your bit for wildlife on your farm, then you could be in with the chance to win £200 as the NI winner, and possibly go on to win £1,000 as the overall UK winner.
The award, which replaces the highly successful 'Operation Lapwing', will celebrate the work farmers do in maintaining our countryside and wildlife.
In conjunction with BBC's Countryfile Magazine, Butterfly Conservation and Plantlife, the RSPB will put a shortlist of four farmers to a public vote to decide the overall UK winner.
The winner should be able to demonstrate what action they have taken on their farm to benefit wildlife, whether for birds, invertebrates or plants.
This could include creating new farmland habitats or simply managing existing habitats that already benefit wildlife, and can include management undertaken as part of an agri-environment scheme.
The closing date for entries is 2nd April, so enter now and you could be our farming champion for 2008!
Leave your contact details online at www.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/farming/natureoffarming, or call us on 028 9049 1547.
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24 March 2008 9:08 AM
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