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AS Level EVS

This presentation introduces the Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS) and its relevance to Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESAs) and National Parks. By the end of the session, participants will understand the principles of the CSS, recognize the location of ESAs, and apply this knowledge to the management of National Parks. The CSS aims to enhance public access and improve sensitive habitats, covering 115 square miles across the U.K., focusing on areas like limestone landscapes and grasslands while promoting traditional farming methods to protect biodiversity.

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AS Level EVS

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  1. AS Level EVS National Parks and the “Countryside Stewardship Scheme”

  2. Aims: • To introduce the Countryside stewardship schemes, and their application to ESA’s and National parks”

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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.

  9. 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……………...

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