Falklands under pressure: climate change, farming, wildlife, and peatland recovery - Dr Jim McAdam

Jim McAdam first went to the Falklands in 1976 as part of a three-person team to set up an agricultural research station in this remote British overseas Territory.

In 1983, just after the Falklands War, he was asked to go back to islands temporarily to help rehabilitate the agricultural research programme and has visited on an almost annual basis since.

He has visited the Falklands 50 times and currently is working with the Falkland Islands Government, environmental NGOs and land owners on a Land Recovery Programme to cope with the rapidly escalating impacts of climate change on the Islands.

About the speaker

Dr Jim McAdam provided over 40 years service at the Agri-Food and Bioscience Institute in Northern Ireland where he has focused on grasslands, ecosystems and agroforestry. He was awarded the OBE in 2014 for his services to science in the Falkland Islands.

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This event has been organised by the Northern Ireland regional committee with Ulster Wildlife.

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