Biodiversity Action Plan 2020-30 Rob Mackeen & Marten Lewis FRSA
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Biodiversity Action Plan 2020-30 Rob Mackeen & Marten Lewis FRSA 2 Foreword endorsements “Bluestone National Park Resort Sophie Howe, Future Generations (Bluestone) will seek to enrich the Commissioner: natural environment and create “ I have been very impressed with a net increase in the diversity the way in which Bluestone are of both habitats and species. embracing sustainability and the Empathy with the natural world Wellbeing of Future Generations will be quite literally, at the Act, from reducing their general heart of this holiday experience. waste by over 40%, to enhancing Bluestone’s ethos has to be the biodiversity, and working with care of it’s natural environment public services during the and it is this dependence that pandemic - there is lots for others will drive the need to conserve to learn from them. I hope that and enhance the vitality of the they will now take their good work surrounding countryside, as even further.” well as increasing the public Ant Rogers, Biodiversity understanding and enjoyment of it, Implementation Officer, both now and far into the future. Pembrokeshire Nature The positive economic impact Partnership: of Bluestone is very significant “Bluestone are valued members to Pembrokeshire but not at the of the Pembrokeshire Nature expense of the environment.” Partnership, working together to promote nature recovery in - William McNamara our County. The transformation (Bluestone; A New Generation at Bluestone from dairy farm to Holiday Village) 2008. nature based resort has seen increases in biodiversity and the contribution the site makes to wider ecological networks. The work that has been done to develop habitats and enhance the natural assets has taken place with reference to local and national Nature Recovery Action Plans. This most recent Biodiversity Action Plan for Bluestone is both comprehensive and aspirational. I am very happy to provide this foreword for the 2021 BAP, and look forward to working with the team at Bluestone over the coming years.” 2 Contents 1 .............Corporate Responsibility overarching context ........ Page 4 2 ............Biodiversity Action Plan 2020-30: Aim ...................... Page 10 3 ............Bluestone Resort ................................................................. Page 14 4 ............Habitat Management .......................................................... Page 14 5 ............Identified Fauna ................................................................... Page 30 6 ............Identified Flora ..................................................................... Page 44 3 1. Corporate implications of its actions to all stakeholders*. Responsibility overarching context Our CR policy aims to ensure Biodiversity Management the business exceeds legislative sits within the Corporate duties where possible, and is Responsibility Department at open to sharing and learning Bluestone. from others in a continuous cycle of improvement. *All stakeholders - staff, Corporate Responsibility at customers, supply chain, local Bluestone community, national and Corporate Responsibility is international communities, and a department at Bluestone - future generations. established in January 2019. The aim of the department is to consolidate all issues around Who we are and what we do Sustainable Development, Bluestone National Park Resort – environment, social and ethical opened in 2008 practices. We are a lodge based resort The remit of the department is offering short breaks in the to take Bluestone into a position Pembrokeshire Coast National of sector leadership, to be Park. continually progressive, and to share best practice wherever No. employees possible. Operating a learning and sharing ethos, supporting 740 (in Jan 2020) greater understanding and the enhancement of Sustainable Development, engaging both No. guests per annum sector and cross sector partners, 2019 - 154,935 and the wider community at large. Accreditation / Affiliation Introduction to Corporate Responsibility • Green Key - Accredited • Business in the Community - Corporate Responsibility (CR) Member refers to a self regulatory, • Pembrokeshire Nature voluntary business model Partnership – Member which positions a business as • WRAP Food Road Map - accountable, and committed Member to enhancing; the social, • WRAP Guardians of Grub - environmental and financial Member 4 Purpose ‘In a world where everyone is so busy and there is little time for families to be together, Bluestone provides an opportunity where you can ‘WE MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY’ STOP, just for a while, and recharge. Bluestone is a place where loved ones reconnect’. 5 Brand values The Bluestone Way Brand values Free Range Sense of place Wholesome National park Natural Local advocate Authentic Community focused tenacious • g • pas rin si e on e a n t o core i e p values s in st cer ne e • open • ho Sense of person Differentiated Quirky Known Spirited Loved Fun loving Valued • Sincere • Open • Honest • Pioneering • Tenacious • Passionate • Free Range • Sense of Place • Differentiated • Sense of Person 6 Mission • to provide a spirited visitor experience • inspiring memories in beautiful surrounding • ensuring guests leave with their inner selves relaxed and refreshed • make people HAPPY Planet and People Centric We are a planet and people centric organisation and operate through a model built on 4 pillars: Planet - People - Product - Profit Free Range Future: Corporate Free Range Responsibility Statement We aspire to our purpose and In order to bring about the mission through our ‘Free Range’ culture change and the ethos. momentum of the entire ‘Free-range’ sums Bluestone up: business towards Sustainable with us, you get room to roam, Development, we have good food, thoughtful care and created the Free Range Future excellent accommodation. It’s movement within Bluestone. why we’re different and it’s what Free Range Future permeates all we’re proud of. We’re in the aspects of Bluestone, informing Pembrokeshire Coast National and guiding the business as it Park, surrounded by incredible escalates towards an apex of countryside, beaches, wildlife and responsibility. heritage, so we’ve got a lot to “Free Range Future is our way of live up to. not doing anything today which our children will have to pay for Our Corporate Responsibility tomorrow”. Strategy- Free Range Future - ensures that we deliver our mission whilst taking our responsibility to sustainable development seriously. 7 Context: Sustainable Development at Bluestone There are 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development as set out by the United Nations. Pembrokeshire Locally, the Pembrokeshire Public Services Board has responded to the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act by creating the Wellbeing Plan for Pembrokeshire, with 2 overarching objectives. Who we are: Helping our people, communities, and organisations so we can support ourselves and each other. Where we live: to protect and enhance our natural assets whilst optimising economic prospects, accessibility and health for all. Wales In order for Bluestone to The UN’s statement on develop Free Range Future Sustainable Development: it must be informed by the “Development that meets the global understanding and needs of the present without regional context of Sustainable compromising the ability of future Development. From this generations to meet their own informed position Bluestone needs” underpins the Wellbeing can develop Free Range Future and Future Generations (Wales) into a meaningful, unique and Act, see diagram. pioneering programme. 8 “Free Range Future is our way of not doing anything today which our children will have to pay for tomorrow”. 9 2. Biodiversity Action values. Enhancing biodiversity is seen Plan 2020-30: Aim as crucial in improving guest Wales experience, and in attaining Our aim is to enhance Bluestone’s our company purpose; to make biodiversity, maximizing the people smile. potential of our habitats and land management to support Regional and Local context the Pembrokeshire Local Biodiversity Action Plan and Nature Recovery Action Plan: the Pembrokeshire Nature Wales Recovery Plan. As a member The Nature Recovery Action Plan of the Pembrokeshire Nature sets out how Wales will address Partnership we are committed the Convention on Biological to playing our part in delivering Diversity’s Strategic Plan for on our local objectives and Biodiversity and the associated supporting the wider Nature Aichi biodiversity targets in Recovery Plan for Wales. Wales. The Nature Recovery 10 years ago our site was of very Action Plan will identify actions low ecological value, over 60% that can be delivered in the was intensively managed as short term and set a course to farmland and the remainder low deliver longer term commitments diversity woodland was due to beyond 2020. The actions in the be felled. However Bluestone saw Plan will be kept under regular scope to enhance the biodiversity review, ensuring they continue of the site and this biodiversity to meet objectives and achieve action plan details our actions to the ambition of nature recovery further conserve and enhance the in Wales. A set of indicators will natural beauty and wildlife. also be developed to measure the progress of the Nature Recovery We are passionate about sharing Action Plan against objectives. our knowledge, understanding To accompany the plan, a Nature and resources to help engage, Recovery Framework will set out educate and champion; the the roles and responsibilities of importance, fragility and joy of the key players