CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

Form­al Board Paper 3 11^th June 2021

CAIRNGORMS NATION­AL PARK AUTHORITY

FOR DIS­CUS­SION

Title: CAIRNGORMS NATURE ACTION PLAN MID-TERM REPORT

Pre­pared by: ANDY FORD, HEAD OF CONSERVATION

Pur­pose

1. This paper presents the Cairngorms Nature Action Plan mid-term report.

Recom­mend­a­tions

1. The Board is asked to:

   a) Note that, over­all, deliv­ery of the Action Plan is pro­gress­ing very well. 83% of tar­gets and actions are con­sidered as either com­plete or pro­gress­ing as expec­ted; 11% are delayed or requir­ing addi­tion­al effort, largely due to COV­ID-19 restric­tions dur­ing ²⁰²⁰⁄₂₁; 4 % are con­sidered to be at sig­ni­fic­ant risk of not being delivered; and 2% are unreported.

   	High risk of not being delivered	Delayed and/​or requires input	On-track	unre­por­ted
   Actions	2	8	72	1
   Tar­gets	3	5	30	2
   TOTAL	5	13	102	3

   b) Note the three areas of work that are assessed as being at ser­i­ous risk of tar­gets not being met or work not pro­gress­ing sat­is­fact­or­ily: i. Peat­land res­tor­a­tion tar­get ii. Expan­sion of rap­tor home range occu­pancy and breed­ing suc­cess iii. Caper­cail­lie pop­u­la­tion status

   c) Note the diversity of con­ser­va­tion delivered by a wide range of land man­agers, estates, organ­isa­tions, com­munit­ies, groups and indi­vidu­als; and the con­tri­bu­tions they make to the col­lect­ive deliv­ery of the Cairngorms Nature Action Plan, as high­lighted in this short film https://we.tl/t‑BVAvWu8SID

Andy Ford andyford@​cairngorms.​co.​uk I June 2021