PRESSURES & APPROACHES IN

NATIONAL PARKS & AREAS OF OUTSTANDING

NATURAL BEAUTY

Development Pressures

HousingHousing

Boddington Hill

Grove Farm

Proposed High Speed Railway through Chilterns AONB?

Bluestone National Park Village - Pembrokeshire

CAP ReformEnvironment?

Climate Change

Fire Flood Drought

Landscape Scale

Connections

Duke of Burgundy Sites

Other improved & semi improved grassland

0.5km buffer

1km buffer

Integration - is not a dirty word

Bracken Control Statistics• NPA –

5,500 ha Bracken eradication

• Integrated –

35,000 ha Bracken eradication

Ecosystem Services- involve production

The Past is not a safe

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