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……………...