The ELMS and Nature’s Recovery in the Humberhead Levels conference is aimed at land managers who are interested in diversifying income and potential buyers of ecosystem services. With an exciting panel of speakers, this conference will explore:

• Findings from the Humberhead Levels ELMS Test
• The role of on the ground support and a tailored, business approach to environmental land management
• Private markets and ELMS: delivering public goods including carbon, habitat and sustainable water management
• Collaborative working, nature connectivity and the role of digital mapping technology

This is an exciting opportunity to engage with expert speakers during our Q&A session and exhibition area. Attendees will have the chance to share their views with us to feed back to Defra, helping shape the future of ELMS. This event is free, lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Further information about the event on Thursday 31 March and how to book can be found here:

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The conference is ideal for anyone who is interested in biodiversity, carbon or nutrient credit trading and working together for nature’s recovery. It’s a chance to share views, and help the Trust learn how the schemes can work across the whole supply chain and how public and private funding can be blended and stacked. From horticultural growers to arable or livestock farmers and nature recovery specialists, all land managers are invited, whatever your location.

Tammy Smalley, Head of Conservation. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust said:
“We have worked with land managers from across our area to identify what they consider to be the public goods on their land holdings and to start outlining these assets within Land Management Plans.

“These Tests provide a strong opportunity to demonstrate how we can work across landscapes and county borders contributing to the shaping of ELMS and working collaboratively to achieve more together for people and wildlife in the productive lowlands.”

The new Environmental Land Management Schemes (ELMS) that replaces existing agri-environment programmes is being piloted from 2021 and rolled out in full from 2024. Tests and trails are currently underway across the country enabling land managers to co-design the scheme. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and partners are running the Tests in the Humberhead Levels and in South Lincolnshire. They explore the potential delivery of new schemes, working at the landscape-scale to identify and prioritise ecosystem services that provide locally important public goods. The Tests have been supported by data and expertise from the Local Environmental Record Centres and the University of Lincoln.