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Managing shrub encroachment in cork oak montado

Why manage shrub encroachment in cork oak montado?

The impact of the shrub layers that naturally occupy the montado ecosystem can often be positive. Benefits include:

natural tree regeneration
protection from excessive light exposure and animal predation
soil protection
increased carbon sequestration
increased fodder diversity
increased biodiversity

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Mixed Crop-Dairy Cattle Farm in South-Western France

In 2000, they decided that ploughing had to stop and that their agricultural system could be modelled as closely as possible to the forest, with constant inputs of organic matter to enhance bacterial life in the soil.

Description of what a RAIN is

Knepp Re-Wilding Project

Agforward General Assembly in 2017

Mixed livestock browsing in holm oak montado

Ploughing in between 14 year old walnut trees

Celtic Pigs in Silvopastoral Systems

Cereal silvoarable agroforestry (South Portugal)

Darliner Farm

Alley cropping system of Poplar in Forst, Germany

Silvopastoral system with Ash at Loughall, Northern Ireland

Collection of reindeer