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Sustainable Management Scheme
Sustainable Management Schemes – part of the Rural Development Programme 2014-20
Why? New Approach needed
•Farmers/landowners/Government/agencies/NGOs/communities
•Embrace collaborative schemes – new conversations
•No more thinking alone
•Nature Fund – state of nature 2013 – new concept
•SMS – different from previous projects/landscape scale
•Different aspirations?
•Farmers/environment –adaptive management
Wading Bird Numbers Falling Dramatically
Community Engagement – Multiple Benefits to the wider audience
lFarmer interviews
lMoorland studies
lInterest Groups/volunteers needed
lFestival of Moorlands
lSinging Welsh National Anthem
Collaborations
Shifting the emphasis
•Putting farmer/landowner at the core
•Invite chosen partners to produce results
•Highlight the work of the uplands
•Dog walkers, 4x4 vehicles, motorbikes
Sustainable Management Scheme - Rural Development Plan 2014 - 2020
Landscape scale means creating a necklace of activity
Good tramplers of the bracken. TB threat
