Long and short-distance transhumant pastoralism in Romania: past and present drivers of change

January 2010 Sally Huband (s.huband@macaulay.ac.uk) is a researcher at the Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, UK, studying the signifi cance of farmer and crofter culture in relation to biodiversity conservation. She completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Agricultural College on the ‘Role of Romanian Pastoralists in Conserving Agricultural Biodiversity’. Davy McCracken (Davy.McCracken@sac.ac.uk) is an agricultural ecologist with a particular interest in the relationships between European High Nature Value (HNV) farming systems and wildlife ecology. Annette Mertens (mertens.annette@gmail.com) is a freelance wildlife biologist based in Italy who coordinates European Union-funded LIFE Projects that aim to manage the confl ict between large carnivores and agriculture.