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AS Level EVS. National Parks and the “Countryside Stewardship Scheme”. Aims:. To introduce the Countryside stewardship schemes, and their application to ESA’s and National parks”. Objectives. By the end of today we should be able to: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
AS Level EVS
National Parks and the “Countryside Stewardship Scheme”
Aims:
• To introduce the Countryside stewardship schemes, and their application to ESA’s and National parks”
Objectives
• By the end of today we should be able to:
• Define and apply the ideas of the countryside stewardship scheme
• Understand ESA’s and their Locations
• Apply knowledge to national parks
Countryside Stewardship Scheme
• Run by the Countryside Commission
• No restriction to where it is applied
• Targets specific habitats
• examples of these are:
• Limestone areas
• grasslands
• waterside landscapes
CSS Cont………………….
• Payments are made in order to improve public access
• some 115 square miles of land is covered by this across the U.K.
• Covers a range of sensitive management activities such as:
• limiting inorganic fertiliser use• pesticide control
ESA’s
• Page 203 course text
• Scheme of ESA was introduced in 1987
• Ministry of Agriculture
• 16 sites were chosen initially that were considered to be environmentally sensitive
• sites may be chosen for beauty, rarity, or historic significance
ESA’s Cont ………………...
• ESA’s are “Areas which have high landscape or wildlife value and which are vulnerable to the effects of intensive farming”
• Farmers are therefore compensated for adopting traditional farming methods.
• This is actioned under a ten year plan
ESA’s and the CCS
• National trust and Woodland trust are charities and are the principle landowners and so play an important biological role and a conservational role.
• Many of these conservation designations are on page 265 in the table at the top of the page.
National Parks
• Founded in 1949• aims are to maintain the valuable landscapes
and promote quiet recreational activities within them
• their rules and legislations can not be applied to farming and mining activities in the same way as SSSI’s
• AND NOW FOR DA VIDEO……………...