The Partnership's Plan - Lake District National Park

Action
No.
Action How Complete
by
Lead partner Other partners Milestones
23. Strategic activity – Restore, enhance and create habitats and their associated species, and conserve geodiversity
23.73 Develop an Integrated
2010
Biodiversity Delivery Area
(IBDA) for the Lake District
National Park.
23.74 Review and ratify County
Wildlife Sites (CWS) element of
the Local Sites Network.
23.75 Deliver RSPB Morecambe Bay
Futurescapes Project
23.76 Deliver RSPB Lakes High Fells
Futurescapes Project
Develop a proposal for a Lake District IBDA
setting out how it will support existing projects
and assist in the development of new projects
that will deliver both BAP targets and
ecosystem services
Develop a strategy with relevant partners for
delivering the IBDA using guidance from IBDA
pilot projects and taking into account other
existing strategies in the area
Survey old sites and reassess using agreed
Cumbria Guidelines. CWSs provide an
important framework to help manage climate
change. Sympathetic management will also
help to retain/store carbon.
Restore wetland habitat on a landscape-scale
within targeted river valleys fringing
Morecambe Bay including the Lyth, Rusland
and Duddon Valleys, to help deliver the
national 50 year Wetland Vision.
Restore habitat on a landscape-scale within
the Ullswater, Haweswater and Bassenthwaite
catchment, delivering ecosystem services
benefits
2011
NE LDNPA, EA, RSPB,
UU, FC, CCC, CWT,
NT, Cumbria
Biodiversity
Partnership, NFU,
District Councils,
Tullie House
Museum
2011 CWT NE, LDNPA , NT, EA,
District Councils,
Tullie House
Museum.
2015 RSPB NE, EA, LDNPA,
Morecambe Bay
Wildlife Network
2015 RSPB NE, LDNPA, EA and
FC
Draw up and present proposal to Lake District
National Park Partnership or sub-group of
partners in December 2010
Identify key partners to steer development and
implementation of IBDA – March 2011
Produce IBDA strategy by November 2011
To have reviewed and ratified 11% of County
Wildlife Sites in the National Park by 2011
Restore 100 hectares of UK BAP wetlands
habitat per year. 500 hectares by 2015
Work with farmers within three defined
landscape-scale target areas from valley
bottom to hill top to deliver 100 ha per year of
habitat improvement. 500 hectares by 2015
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