| Consultations |
| Below
is a list of the regional consultations that are currently taking
place. We'll try to keep this as up-to-date as possible. If you are
aware of any other consultations that are taking place at a regional
level please let us know.
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| Water for Life consultation |
| Click here
to view SWRBP response to Water for Life consultation
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| Regional Spatial Strategy and Joint
Study Areas |
The nature conservation section that will accompany
the nature map in the RSS is currently out for consultation. Click
here
to download this section. Comments to basil.greenwood@english-nature.org.uk,
ASAP.
Click here
to learn the latest news on the Regional Spatial Strategy consultation.
This link will also take you to information about Sub-Regional Studies
(Joint Study Areas) that are underway in the prime urban areas of
the region. |
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| South West Regional
Biodiversity Partnership Publications |
| South West Biodiversity Implementation
Plan |
| Heather Sohl, 2004 |
Published in 2004, this provides a co-ordinated programme
of actions for delivering biodiversity conservation across the
Region over the next 10 years. The plan contributes to the implementation
of the South West Environment Strategy and the Biodiversity
Strategy for England. It supports the work of the South West
Biodiversity Action Plan by looking at how biodiversity interacts
with the following sectors:
- Farming and Food
- Water and Wetlands
- Woodland and Forestry
- Towns, Cities and Development
- Coastal and Marine environment
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| South
West Biodiversity Implementation Plan |
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| Case Studies Booklet: Natural advantage:
Action for biodiversity in the South West |
| South West Regional Biodiversity Partnership,
2004 |
Across the South West Region a host of organisations
and individuals are working in partnership to maintain and enhance
our precious nature conservation heritage. This booklet gives
details of some of the exciting partnership projects that are
benefiting not only wildlife but economic and social wellbeing
in the South West.
The online booklet is available in 4 parts (PDF format), please
click on the relevant link below. |
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1:
Foreword and Contents,
Introduction,
Theme: Action for Habitats and Species - Case studies 1-6
Part
2 :
Theme: Action for Habitats and Species (cont) - Case studies
7 & 8,
Theme: Community Action for Nature - Case studies 9 to 15
Part
3:
Theme: Nature and the Economy - Case studies 16 to 21
Theme: Improving Quality of Life - Case studies 22 to 25
Part
4:
Theme: Improving Quality of Life (cont) - Case studies 26
& 27
Theme: Ecosystem and Landscape Management - Case studies 28
to 33
Index of Organisations
SW Regional Biodiversity Partnership Contacts |
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| Additional case studies |
In putting together the Natural Advantage booklet, one
of the hardest tasks of the South West Regional Biodiversity
Partnership's hardest tasks was selecting which case studies
to include - our apologies to all those we could not find
space for. Here we list many of the additional wonderful projects
that we are aware of in the South West. If you have any other
projects that you would like to see listed here please don't
hesitate to contact us.
| Theme |
Case study |
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| Action
for habitats and species |
Cirl
bunting project, Devon
Reedbed
creation at Shapwick Heath NNR, Somerset
Coastal
grazing on the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall
Arlington
bat project, Devon
Bovey
Valley Woods, Devon
Hardy's
Egdon Heath project, Dorset |
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| Community
action for nature |
Stockway
North Nature Reserve, North Somerset
Nature
for Real, Dartmoor
Lorton
Meadows, Dorset
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| Nature
and the economy |
Brimpts
Farm biodiversity trail, Dartmoor |
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| Improving
quality of life |
Tap
Routes - an environmental training consortium, Cornwall
St
Ives Green Gym, Cornwall |
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| Ecosystem
and landscape management |
Stonehenge
historic landscape arable reversion, Wiltshire |
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| Cross-cutting |
Wildlife
Counts! Biodiversity Indicators Project, Wiltshire |
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| Action for biodiversity in the South West:
a series of habitat and species plans to guide delivery |
| 1997 |
| The information within the South West Biodiversity Action
Plan can be found on the South West Biodiversity pages of this
site. |
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| The Biodiversity of the South
West: An Audit of the South West Biological Resource |
| 1996 |
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| Other Biodiversity Publications |
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| A Biodiversity Guide for Planning
and Development Sectors in the South West |
| Oxford, M.J. & McArthur, R. (2000) |
| Available from the RSPB, 01392 432691 |
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| Biodiversity: The UK Action Plan |
| Department for the Environment (1994) |
| www.ukbap.org.uk |
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| Other Useful Publications |
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Our Environment: Our Future, The Regional Strategy for the
South West Environment |
| South West Regional Assembly (2004) |
| www.southwest-ra.gov.uk |
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