Unit 1: Governmental Conservation Schemes
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- Governmental Conservation Schemes
- Species Recovery Programme - Natural England
- Aims to conserve particular endangered species
- Activities include habitat management, captive breeding and release and population monitoring
- Examples = dormouse, skylark, red squirrel, lady slipper orchid
- Biodiversity Action Plan - DEFRA
- Involves nearly 2,000 organisations
- Established after the Convention on Biological Diversity 1992 signing
- Three main plans:
- Species Action Plans (382 species)
- Habitat Action Plans (28 habitats)
- Local Action Plans
- The Environmental Stewardship Scheme - DEFRA
- Aims
- Conserve wildlife
- Maintain and enhance landscape quality and character
- Protect natural resources
- Promote public access
- Provides financial support and rewards to farmers that use environmentally beneficial management
- Created to combat intensive farming damage that has removed habitats and increased pesticide use
- Managements that have been awarded money are hedgerow use, wild bird seed dispersal and soil erosion management
- Aims
- Species Recovery Programme - Natural England
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