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CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Paper 4 Annex 1 | 12 June 2020

NPPP Pro­gramme Delivery

Con­ser­va­tion

Pri­or­ity	No	Agenda for Action	Key Work Areas	5 year Out­come	Mile­stones & End Date	Notes 18⁄19	Notes 19⁄20	Status 18⁄19	Status 19⁄20
1. Land­scape – Scale Conservation	1a	Tar­get effort and sup­port to the most effect­ive oppor­tun­it­ies to deliv­er the pub­lic interest pri­or­it­ies such as wood­land improve­ment and expan­sion, peat­land res­tor­a­tion, flood risk management	Pro­duce wood­land expan­sion tar­get map and pro­mote; Input to forestry con­sulta­tions; Pub­lish New Cairngorms Forest Strategy; Tar­get and pro­mote peat­land res­tor­a­tion oppor­tun­it­ies; Pro­mote oppor­tun­it­ies for nat­ur­al flood management	5000 ha Nat­ive wood­land expan­sion; Improved wood­land hab­it­ats; Improved forest cre­ation and man­age­ment; 5000 ha Peat­land res­tor­a­tion; Examples of nat­ur­al flood management	5000ha wood­land expan­sion by 2022; Forestry con­sulta­tions respon­ded to as neces­sary; CFS pub­lished Autumn 2018; 5000ha peat­land res­tor­a­tion by 2022; Sub-catch­ment mon­it­or­ing of extens­ive range of NFM measures	Forest Strategy launched in March 2019. Strong sup­port for Forest Strategy object­ives shown by diverse groups. 1200 ha wood­land expan­sion achieved since 2017. 1280 ha peat­land res­tor­a­tion achieved since 2017.	2948 ha of wood­land expan­sion achieved since 2017 (updated Nov 2019). 1788 ha Peat­land res­tor­a­tion since 2017. 508ha of peat­land under res­tor­a­tion man­age­ment (sub­ject to weath­er) dur­ing 2019⁄20. 487ha not pro­gressed due to lack of con­tract­or capa­city and snow on site. Over 5500ha of peat depth sur­veys and HIA done.	Green amber
	1b	Sup­port and fur­ther devel­op the role of catch­ment part­ner­ships as mech­an­isms to co-ordin­ate land use plan­ning, and identi­fy pri­or­ity areas for nat­ur­al flood management	Input to CPs to ensure they work effect­ively on the ground; Devel­op and mon­it­or CP action plans	Effect­ive Catch­ment part­ner­ships, achiev­ing prac­tic­al results	Catch­ment Part­ner­ships fully staffed and integ­rated with Fish­ery Trusts; Wide range of new prac­tic­al examples of sus­tain­able catch­ment management	Spey & Dee CP’s deliv­er­ing NPPP out­comes; S. Esk draft­ing new CP ref­er­en­cing NPPP out­comes; Ripari­an plant­ing pro­jects deliv­er­ing mul­tiple bene­fits; JHI nfm pri­or­ity area map­ping being finalised	River Dee Trust launched ​‘Plant a Mil­lion Trees’ cam­paign — ripari­an plant­ing in upper catch­ment; Spey Catch­ment Ini­ti­at­ive deliv­er­ing ripari­an plant­ing and river res­tor­a­tion pro­jects along the Spey.; New River Dee Catch­ment Man­age­ment Plan final draft stage; S. Esk CMP deliv­er­ing ripari­an plant­ing and river restoration	Green	Green
	1c	Sup­port land own­er led col­lab­or­a­tions to co-ordin­ate plan­ning, deliv­ery and mon­it­or­ing across mul­tiple land hold­ings, includ­ing Cairngorms Con­nect and the East Cairngorms Moor­land Partnership	CC – Offer advice and sup­port to CC as reques­ted; ECMP – drive for­ward agreed pro­jects (eg hab­it­at enhance­ment map, rap­tor pro­jects, muir­burn plan)	CC – Long term pro­jects (eg mont­ane wood­land res­tor­a­tion, co ordin­ated deer man­age­ment) begun.; ECMP – Estates work­ing in co-ordin­ated fash­ion on agreed set of key projects	CC – 2018 – ELP applic­a­tion suc­cess­ful.; ECMP – 2019 – key pro­jects under­way on muir­burn, wood­lands, raptors	CC — 2019 – new team appoint­ments and 5 year pro­ject under­way; ECMP – rap­tor plans being developed with NE rap­tor group; muir­burn event planned March; wood­land pro­pos­als being dis­cussed with indi­vidu­al estates	Green	Green
	1d	Co-ordin­ate hab­it­at, recre­ation and devel­op­ment man­age­ment to secure the caper­cail­lie pop­u­la­tion through deliv­ery of the Caper­cail­lie Framework	NLHF bid: Com­munity con­sulta­tion & action plan­ning; forest expan­sion & enhance­ment; genet­ic research; mon­it­or­ing; fence marking/​remov­al; Explore translocation/​rein­tro­duc­tion	150ha new nat­ive wood­land; Action Plans in 5 com­munit­ies of interest and place; Translocation/​rein­tro­duc­tion?	NLHF pro­ject devel­op­ment phase under­way sum­mer 2018; phase two applic­a­tion sub­mit­ted spring 2019; Translocation/​rein­tro­duc­tion (or not) agreed by end 2020	NLHF pro­ject devel­op­ment phase under­way – on track for forest cre­ation tar­gets and phase two application	Devel­op­ment phase com­pleted. Stage 2 bid to be sub­mit­ted March 2020. Forest expan­sion and enhance­ments tar­gets exceeded (sub­ject to fund­ing). 1community action plan writ­ten for pilot com­munity (Carr bridge) and 5 oth­ers signed up for phase 2. SNH, RSPB and FLS in dis­cus­sion on Deeside over caper, with per­haps long-term view of estab­lish­ing Deeside Caper officer to raise aware­ness in community	Amber	Amber
	1e	Deliv­er co-ordin­ated con­ser­va­tion action through the Tomin­toul and Glen­liv­et Land­scape Partnership	Lead the TGLP; Man­age TGLP staff	Suc­cess­ful deliv­ery of the HLF fun­ded Land­scape Con­ser­va­tion Action Plan	Bird hide built – Winter 2017; Dis­cov­ery Centre open	Bird hide open and inter­pret­a­tion pro­duced.; River restorations	Final stages of pro­gramme. Some sig­ni­fic­ant hurdles remain, but over­all pro­jects have pro­gressed extremely well, on time and on budget. Staff are work­ing extremely hard and TGLP board con­tin­ue to mon­it­or pro­gress closely. Need to con­cen­trate on tying up remain­ing pro­jects, agree­ing all the 10 year pro­ject man­age­ment and main­ten­ance agree­ments and ensur­ing leg­acy man­age­ment is in place.	Green	Green

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