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	Scotland's Changing Rural Biodiversity SNH Battleby Centre, Perth 13 May 2009

The purpose of this one-day forum was to review current knowledge on the status and values of Scotland's rural biodiversity and to explore successes and failures in achieving biodiversity goals.

The forum was organised by ECRR in association with the Aberdeen Research Consortium and with the support of the Scottish Biodiversity Forum and Scottish Natural Heritage.

More than 100 participants heard from 13 speakers about a broad spectrum of issues and the challenges that researchers face.

Slide presentations can be viewed here:

• Scotland's changing rural biodiversity: Context, Greg Mudge, SNH
• Biodiversity and ecosystem services, Roy Haines-Young & Marion Potschin, University of Nottingham
• Biodiversity awareness and involvement in Scotland, Rachel Bishop & Liz Murphy, Progressive Parnership Ltd
• Management for biodiversity by NGOs, Paul Walton, RSPB
• Conservation in protected areas and the wider countryside, Ed Mackey, SNH
• Managing conflicting goals in the uplands: consequences for biodiversity, Steve Albon (Macaulay Institute) and Steve Redpath (University of Aberdeen)
• Farmland biodiversity: where do we go from here? Davy McCracken, SAC
• Integrating biodiversity goals in the SRDP, Jo O'Hara, Scottish Government
• Integrating biodiversity objectives in planning, Michael Oxford, Association of Local Government Ecologists
• Habitat networks: linking across scales and land uses, Duncan Ray, Forest Research
• Collaborative approaches to delivering biodiversity objectives: keeping it simple, John Hambrey, Hambrey Consulting
• Implications for policy & action: 2010 and beyond, Allan Watt, CEH

Some 20 poster presentations were also made and abstracts of these presentations can be viewed here.