Seán Ó Conláin speaks with ecologist Julien Carlier, who is a postdoctoral researcher at the Marine and Freshwater Research Centre, Atlantic Technological University Galway. He did a doctoral thesis on the ecological benefits of greenways and is currently working on the HNV_FarmForBio project, mapping High Nature Value farmland and forestry. Julien discusses his work and also gives his impressions of the new CAP programmes which aim to pay farmers for restoring biodiversity on farmland.