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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:
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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: • 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……………...