The Nature Conservation Fund brings a new peer-to-peer advice service to landowners

The Nature Conservation Fund (Loodushoiu Fond) is introducing a new person-to-person advice service that helps landowners looking for answers to nature conservation questions learn from the practical experience of others.
At the Estonian Agricultural Fair, the fund welcomes landowners at its booth who have a nature conservation question about their land or forest that another landowner’s practical experience could help solve.

What should you do if you want to protect nature on your land while keeping the land usable and earning an income from it? Or if a specific conservation issue has been left unresolved because there hasn’t been time to deal with it, or it isn’t clear where to start?

The Nature Conservation Fund connects a landowner with such a question with another landowner who has already been down a similar road and is willing to share their experience. This is how peer advice – from landowner to landowner – comes about.

“Advice on nature conservation often comes to landowners from the state or from experts, but it carries quite a different weight when another landowner who has faced the same challenges speaks from their own experience. They can tell you what they tried, what worked and what didn’t, and how the choices they made affected the use of the land and the income from it,” explained Pille Ligi, Member of the Management Board of the Nature Conservation Fund.

The aim of the peer advice service is to help landowners find practical solutions to nature conservation challenges in a way that keeps their options for using the land open and keeps any impact on their income as small as possible.

The Nature Conservation Fund will be waiting for landowners at its booth at the EPA fair on 14 and 15 October.