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Snh Annual Report 1994-1995 SCOTTISH NATURAL HERITAGE 1994-95 SCOTTISH NATURAL HERITAGE Annual Report 1994-95 Working with Scotland's people to care for our natural heritage Ag obhair comhla ri muinntir na h-Alba airson math ar dualchas nadair SCOTTISH Magnus Magnusson KBE 12 Hope Terrace NATURAL Chairman Edinburgh HERITAGE EH9 2AS Telephone: 0131 447 4784 Fax: 0131 446 2278 To the Right Honourable Michael Forsyth MP Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Scotland Sir, I have the honour to present the Report of Scottish Natural Heritage, covering the period 1 April 1994 to 31 March 1995. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Magnus Magnusson KBE Chairman Scottish Natural Heritage 12 Hope Terrace Edinburgh EH9 2 AS November 1995 Laid before Parliament under Section 10 of the Natural Heritage (Scotland) Act 1991 Chairman: Magnus Magnusson KBE Chief Executive: Roger Crofts Working with Scotland's people to care for our natural heritage Contents SJVH ANNUAL REPORT 1994/95 Chief Executive's Foreword 4 FACTS AND FIGURES The Natural Heritage PROMOTING Biodiversity 6 Designated Areas as at 31 March 1995 Nature Conservation Designations National Nature Reserves 42 MANAGING Sites of Special Scientific Interest - Special Natural Heritage Sites 9 Sites designated 1/4/94 - 31/3/95 43 Summary 43 Damage 44 FACILITATING THE Nature Conservation Orders 44 Management of Key Areas 13 Management Agreements 44 International Designations Designated Ramsar Sites 47 IMPROVING Designated Special Protection Areas 48 Environmental Education 16 Proposed Ramsar Sites with local consultations completed and recommended to Government for designations 48 ASSISTING Other International Landscape and Land Managers 19 Recreation Designations 48 Other Designations Local Nature Reserves 49 PROTECTING Responses to consultations 50 Marine and Coastal Areas 24 Grants awarded 52 Loan repayments 66 Research contracts 68 WORKING WITH Licences issued 76 Local Authorities 27 SUPPORTING THE Central Scotland Woodlands Initiative 31 Scottish Natural Heritage DELIVERING Board members 78 Special Nature Conservation Functions 33 Publications 79 Public access to environmental information - a statement 80 ADVISING ON Statement of account 81 Natural Heritage Policy Development 34 Statement of Chief Executive and Board responsibilities 84 Auditor's certificate 85 INCREASING Income and expenditure account 86 Efficiency, Effectiveness and Economy 37 Notes to the accounts 89 ' SNH ANNUAL REPORT 1994/95 , < Chief Executive's Foreword < The year 1994/95 was, to a significant extent, a year of preparations for the launch of a major initiative - 'Paths re-orientation, innovation and partnership. We re- for All' - aimed at increasing access in and around orientated our programmes in the light of changing communities throughout Scotland over the next decade, Government priorities. We developed many new for the benefit of residents and visitors alike. We were approaches in areas which previously created difficulty. pleased with the positive responses to our proposals and We brought an ever-widening range of interests together action programme and hope that the partnership into working partnership, both nationally and locally. approach will bring many practical benefits in future Within SNH we developed greater coherence for the years. organisation through the Management Strategy and the evolution of our Corporate Planning systems. We launched our Focus on Firths Initiative aimed at increasing understanding and awareness of the natural We adjusted our programmes during the year in the light heritage of our key firths as well as seeking to facilitate of the changed priorities given to us by the Secretary of coherent management strategies for these areas. Once State as part of the financial settlement for this year and again, we were pleased with the positive responses from future years. We took forward the work in support of the public, private and voluntary sector partners in the Government's obligations under the EC Directives on Moray Firth, the Solway Firth and the Firth of Forth. We Wild Birds and Habitats. We have actively pursued the also brought forward our proposals for improving the 4 many actions which Government has asked us to management of the natural heritage on the red deer undertake in implementing its Biodiversity Action Plan. range (both the moorland and woodland elements). We All of this work has been underpinned by the clear began our active partnership with the Red Deer articulation of Government policy on Biodiversity and Commission and the Deer Management Groups to Sustainable Development in the suite of post-Rio secure long-term improvements to the habitats. We look documents published in January 1994. In addition, we forward to the benefits which this approach will bring to have increased our efforts and resourcing towards deer managers and to all plants and animals which achieving the objectives set out by the Secretary of State depend on the range. for the Cairngorms, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs and for Environmental Education. Several other major initiatives were developed during the year and will be formally launched next year. I shall The year also saw the realisation of a number of key mention here only two action-orientated and innovative initiatives for which we have been preparing for some schemes. First, in the field of Environmental Education time; some indeed had been started by our predecessor we have developed a series of valuable tools for use in bodies. For many, access to the natural heritage, schools, by community groups of all ages and other particularly outside the major settlements, is a major interests to stimulate public interest in the natural issue: it places demands on owners and managers of heritage and to heighten knowledge and awareness. land and, on the other hand, it is seen as a traditional The Environmental Community Chest, and the freedom for all of us living in Scotland. We have now development of the Grounds for Learning project as well brought out a major policy statement and action as teachers packs, will form part of our Environmental programme on access. As a result we were asked to Education Initiative which we intend to launch next establish an Access Forum to bring together many year. Second, we have focused some attention on different interests to consider codes of practice on intensive arable agriculture. We commissioned review access to different parts of Scotland. We also began reports on agricultural technology and entered into discussion with leading arable farmers to identify those We pride ourselves in the service we provide to our many products and practices which could be actively used to customers. This was the first full year for the the benefit of farm businesses and the farm environment. implementation of 'Natural Standards', SNH's response to the Citizen's Charter. I am pleased to report that, as Working in partnership continues to be a major mode of indicated in detail in this report, we were well above operation for us. We have developed our relationships target on all aspects of our service delivery over the year with the 8,500 or so owners and occupiers of Sites of as a whole. Special Scientific Interest. Each of them has received a copy of our booklet on SSSIs, and new SSSI owners and During the year we reviewed our internal planning occupiers have been given a simply worded systems and re-styled our work into 11 Programmes, and Management Brief explaining the importance of the site these form the basic framework for our review of 1994/95 and our view of its management requirements. in this Annual Report. SNH Key Targets Progress on particular former 'hot spots' of controversy has also been made through innovative schemes in the TASK TARGET 1994/95 ACHIEVEMENTS 25% in SE Flow Country, Islay, Strathbeg, the Solway and South Percentage contact 20% in 1994/95 with SSSI owners and (100% over 5 years) 30% in SW Walls on Orkney in order to protect rare or endangered occupiers 25% in NW 71% inNE species and the habitats on which they depend and, at Percentage of SSSIs 100% of new SSSIs 100% the same time, maintain the financial viability of farmers' for which management 20% of existing 25% briefs completed businesses. Percentage of 100% * 72% management plans 5 A major new area of activity during the year has been completed for NNRs partnership working with other interests to obtain Numbers of projects to raise understanding European Regional Development Funds in Objective 1, 2 and awareness - local communities 39 (3 per SNH Area) 37 and 5b areas. We were actively involved in the - business communities 8 (2 per SNH Region) 24 development of framework plans and the preparation for Respond within 100% 100%responded applications for environmental projects, as well as timescales to statutory within deadline consultations ensuring environmental benefits from major economic * Within the year some original NNR plans came up for revision. development and infrastructure projects. During the year we gave out 1203 grants totalling £8.16 million and As this Annual Report makes clear we have made a great completed the negotiation of 79 Management deal of progress during the year. We achieved 85% of Agreements, of which 68% were positive agreements or targets set out in our Operational Plan and 95% of the had positive management elements. targets set for us by The Scottish Office, and we laid solid foundations for delivering our programmes for the future. The devolution of responsibility to the local level remains I welcome the Government's continuing support through one of our key operating principles. Our four Regional the provision of additional resources, and the active Boards and Regional staff continued to work engagement of our partners. Of vital importance productively together and with a wide range of local throughout the year was the dedicated and determined partners. We reinforced our local presence with the effort of all my colleagues, both staff and Board opening of an office in Dunoon, and we moved two of members, within SNH.
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