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Protecting Wildlife for the Future

Local Biodiversity and NI 197 Case Study: Tees Valley. Jeremy Garside Tees Valley Wildlife Trust. Protecting Wildlife for the Future. Case Study Tees Valley - Contents. Evolution of LS System LS Partnership Criteria Surveys and Data National Parks Positive Management Landowners

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Protecting Wildlife for the Future

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  1. Local Biodiversity and NI 197 Case Study: Tees Valley Jeremy Garside Tees Valley Wildlife Trust Protecting Wildlife for the Future

  2. Case Study Tees Valley - Contents • Evolution of LS System • LS Partnership • Criteria • Surveys and Data • National Parks • Positive Management • Landowners • Lessons Learnt Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

  3. Case Study Tees Valley – Evolution of Local Sites Sites of Ecological and Geological Value in County Cleveland (1977) Sites of Biological Importance –Cleveland Wildlife Strategy (1989) Sites of Nature Conservation Importance – District Local Plans (1994-99) Local Wildlife Sites – Unitary Authority LDF’s (2009 - ) Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

  4. Case Study Tees Valley- Local Sites Partnership Local Sites partnerships should build or draw on established partnershipswhere they exist(Defra LS Guidelines) Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

  5. Case Study Tees Valley- Local SitesCriteria All Local Sites systems should have a set of clear and locally defined site selection criteria Tees Valley LS Partnership has developed and agreed a set of criteria covering 8 habitat types and 15 species / groups Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

  6. Case Study Tees Valley- Local SitesSurveys Local Sites systems should select all areas of substantive nature conservation value Middlesbrough - 30 sites surveyed, 15 proposed for designation under the criteria Redcar & Cleveland – desk review of 70 candidate sites, new surveys on 42 sites. 45 proposed Local Wildlife Sites In Stockton, desk review and surveys on 90 sites. 71 proposed Local Wildlife Sites Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

  7. Case Study Tees Valley– National Parks Local Sites within National Parks should be reported upon. National Parks will not be reporting separately (Defra Guidance on NI 197 - Revised December 2008) Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

  8. Case Study Tees Valley – Positive Management Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

  9. Case Study Tees Valley – Local Geological Sites Tees Valley RIGS Group is the Local Geological Sites sub-group of the LS Partnership Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

  10. Case Study Tees Valley – Landowners Site owners should be given the opportunity to make observations Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

  11. Case Study Tees Valley – Lessons Learnt 1. Funding Pondscapes Defra Countdown 2010 Tees Valley Newts SITA Enriching Nature Lost Meadows Heritage Lottery Fund Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

  12. Case Study Tees Valley – Lessons Learnt 2. Partnerships Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

  13. Case Study Tees Valley – Lessons Learnt 3. A great opportunity Tees Valley Wildlife Trust

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