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SOMERSET Biodiversity NEWS Welcome to This Bumper Staff News Her Role Is to Implement Our New Set of Biodiversity Action Plans (Baps) Issue 1 Autumn 2009 SOMERSET Biodiversity NEWS Welcome to this bumper Staff news Her role is to implement our new set of Biodiversity Action Plans (BAPs). edition of the Somerset In July 2009, the partnership If you are reading this, you probably Biodiversity Partnership employed Ali Slade as have at least one BAP Action to deliver Biodiversity Partnership Officer, this year! You are not alone, as there newsletter. based at Somerset Wildlife are over 50 lead partners. She is also Trust. putting together project proposals for funders for many The aim of the Somerset Previously, she of the BAP habitats Biodiversity Partnership is has worked as and species, so if you an Ecologist and can help make new to work together, protect Biodiversity Officer biodiversity projects and enhance the natural for three different happen, please get environment of Somerset, South West local in touch with her authorities and at alison.slade@ its wildlife and geological with Devon Wildlife somersetwildlife.org assets, for the benefit of this Trust. In her spare Tonedale Mill, Tonedale, and future generations of time, she is a bat and Wellington, Somerset, dormouse survey enthusiast and TA21 0AW. Telephone: 01823 652409. Somerset’s people. grows organic produce and “arable Unless otherwise stated, this newsletter wildflowers” on her allotment. has been complied by Ali. Somerset Biodiversity News 1 New Action Plans Staff news (contd.) The South West Regional Delivery Plan and me Joy Williams at Somerset County As 2010 approaches there has and will be disseminated to all LBAP Council is continuing to efficiently been a collective understanding partnerships. co-ordinate partnership meetings, that we are failing even to halt In Phase 2 starting now, each consultation responses and deliver partnership is asked to submit between biodiversity projects. Joy’s contact biodiversity loss and that we will 3 and 8 new or enhanced priority areas details are [email protected]. fail the biodiversity targets we that deliver at a landscape scale across uk or 01823 355663. have set ourselves. The predicted impacts of climate change will multiple BAP habitats and should be broadly based on Nature Map. add significantly to pressures on the natural environment that The Somerset Biodiversity Partnership are already beyond our ability to is putting this information together for submission to Biodiversity Southwest mitigate. All delivery is local. by the 30th November 2009 deadline. This is the context for a fifty year The final list of South West priority Regional Delivery Plan (RDP) for landscapes will be collectively agreed Biodiversity in the South West. We by the end of 2009. are drafting the first of 10 x five-year Naomi Brookes, biodiversity delivery plans that should SW Regional Biodiversity Co-ordinator Meet Matthew Marshall, Somerset result in achieving our Nature Map Wildlife Trust’s new Advisory & vision, and securing biodiversity into Wider Countryside Coordinator. the future by meeting our targets. Delivering advisory visits for projects Phase 1 of the RDP process has focused such as Neroche and Mendip Living on gathering evidence about where to Landscapes is in his remit and he has date we have maintained, restored or a special interest in Local (County) re-created BAP priority habitat in the Wildlife Sites! Contact Matthew on region. The outputs from this project 01823 652410 or matthew.marshall@ will be available in Autumn 2009 somersetwildlife.org. New Action Plans adopted The most recently adopted were the information on biodiversity activity Mendip LBAPs in August 2009. The on the Somerset Wildlife Trust and There is plenty of progress since Quantock Hills AONB Local BAPs will be SCC websites - coming soon! the last newsletter, back in 2007. completed by the end of 2009. Somerset now has an overarching Rather than write a new BAP, the Somerset Biodiversity Strategy, called Here is a table (see below) showing all Blackdown Hills AONB (spanning Wild Somerset and a range of up to the biodiversity action plans (BAPs) Devon and Somerset) are including date County wide and district level produced by the SBP: They can be biodiversity actions in their Delivery habitat and species action plans. accessed through the Somerset County Plan, which will be available on their Thanks to the hard work of the Council (SCC) website. www.somerset. website www.blackdown-hills. partnership, most have been now gov.uk/somerset/ete/countryside/ net or contact Nickie Moore 01823 adopted by the local authorities. biodiversity. Watch out for additional 681932 for more information. Somerset Biodiversity Action Plans Mendip Quantocks Sedgemoor South Somerset Taunton Deane West Somerset Somerset Biodiversity Strategy Hedgerows and Hedgerow Trees Gardens and Urban Greenspace Traditional Orchards Wood Pasture, Parkland and Veteran trees Roadside Verges and Green Lanes Ditches and Ponds Water and Wetlands Otter Bats Lapwing Local Biodiversity Action Plan Purple Moor Grass & Rush Pasture Calcareous & Neutral Grassland Heathlands Woodland Native Wildflowers of Arable Land Coastal & Marine Field Boundaries (Dry Stone Walls) Adder Long-eared Owl Waxcaps Wood White 2 Somerset Biodiversity News Funding for biodiversity Welcome to a new partner 4. Environmental assessment work In September, Wessex Water to enhance biodiversity on Wessex joined the partnership Water land, such as the sites of management group. The Wessex treatment works and the following Water BAP was the first corporate examples; initiative of its kind to be based • A significant portion of the on the UK Biodiversity Action Shapwick Heath National Nature Plan. Copies of their BAP can be Reserve found on their website at www. • Large surface reservoirs sustaining wessexwater.co.uk/ wildfowl, bat and butterfly • Fivehead Arable Fields (Somerset populations and varied habitats Their package of activity includes: Wildlife Trust) from open water, species- rich grassland to broadleaved • Westhay Reedbed & Heath woodland at Clatworthy, Sutton 1. Providing funding to projects (Somerset Wildlife Trust) carried out by wildlife organisations Bingham, Hawkridge and Durleigh - the partners programme. Projects 2. Wessex Watermark awards within Reservoirs. Somerset include a grant towards funded in Somerset include: As well as the management group who the creation of a Community meet quarterly to guide the work of the • Brue Valley Living Landscapes Woodland project in Ashwell, near Somerset Biodiversity Partnership, there Project (with Somerset Wildlife Ilminster and grant (and lease of is also a much larger “Biodiversity Forum” Trust). land to) Cowleaze Meadow Project, for all organisations and individuals active Shepton Beauchamp • Parrett Rivers Project (with in nature conservation. If you would like Somerset FWAG) 3. Action to minimise the impact of to be added to our mailing list for this building new infrastructure, such as newsletter and other relevant emails, • Ham Wall Reedbed (RSPB) treatment works and pipelines; please pass your details to Joy. News on funding for biodiversity Our latest partner, Wessex Water, SITA have announced that they are 20m intervals. The amount of funding have given us notice of grants offering a new three-year Enriching available will be around £1,600 for each likely to be available soon. The Nature Programme that will run from project, but they are also interested 2010 - 2012. The Trust has committed to hear about larger projects. As the Wessex Water Partners Programme £8m in new funds to this programme. funding is from Stella Artois, projects (being announced end of There will be three funding cannot involve children or schools. November 09) covers: rounds per year in each of They also have funding 1. Projects aligned with Wessex Water’s the years 2010, 2011 available for bluebell core business activities (i.e. sewage and 2012. Applicants woods, planting treatment and water supply) to may request up wildflowers and enhance biodiversity and be aligned to £120,000 for regenerating with their Biodiversity Action Plan; an individual meadowland. project. Catherine 2. Partnership Building Projects Armstrong has Applications are focusing on capacity building within more details on welcomed from environmental organisations; 020 7407 9992 or not-for-profit e-mail her at 3. Science & Research Projects which organisations ca@treecouncil. will actively survey, monitor or with projects that org.uk promote understanding of a habitat focus on conserving or species of biodiversity importance. a species or habitat There are a variety Also, they have a Wessex Watermark identified as a priority in of grant streams from award, generally up to £1,500, the UK BAP process but they the Heritage Lottery Fund available for environmental projects must be within 10 miles of an operating which can be used for biodiversity by groups, schools, councils and landfill site. The next deadline is 15 projects. The word is, they are other organisations. They specifically February 2010. http://www.sitatrust. looking for more applications include research projects identified in org.uk/nature-funding relating to biodiversity. See www. hlf.org.uk/English/HowToApply/ LBAPs. For more information please The Tree Council are looking for OurGrantGivingProgrammes for contact Ruth Bardon ruth.barden@ projects that will plant around 500m more information. wessexwater.co.uk 01225-526022 of hedge with hedge trees at average Somerset Biodiversity News 3 Partnership Projects Somerset Schools Projects The SERC slot • Town and Country Planning • SERC data search results We are nearing the end of our School A key document has just been Wildlife Grounds project for this year. approved by the Somerset Biodiversity • Advice on land management Our first five schools were Holy Trinity, Partnership – the Somerset • Funding applications for projects Holway Park, East Brent, Pawlett and Priority Species List. The Somerset • Selection of Local (County) Wildlife Rode School. I’ve been working with Environmental Record Centre (SERC) Sites volunteers from the Somerset Wildlife has undertaken a massive amount of The List will be distributed widely and Trust Wildlife Gardening group who work to produce an up to date and placed on the SERC website very soon.
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