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Cairngorms Nation­al Park Annex 2, Paper 5 Form­al Board 28 June 2024

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Annex 2 Fun­drais­ing Strategy

A wide range of pub­lic, private and vol­un­tary mech­an­isms will need to be secured to fund deliv­ery. Whilst a sig­ni­fic­ant amount of pub­lic fund­ing is already dir­ec­ted towards meas­ures that bene­fit caper­cail­lie con­ser­va­tion, pub­lic money and resource alone will not cov­er the whole cost of deliv­ery of the emer­gency plan. Rather, it will act as a cata­lyst for driv­ing inward invest­ment from oth­er sources.

The Cairngorms Caper­cail­lie Pro­ject (CCP) is a proven example of how a blen­ded fin­ance mod­el can be suc­cess­fully applied to deliv­er bene­fit for capercaillie.

The CCP budget con­sti­tutes over £900,000 of invest­ment from private, pub­lic and char­it­able sources, plus over £100,000 of volun­teer time. This com­bined resource lever­aged £2 mil­lion from the Nation­al Lot­tery Her­it­age Fund and has since attrac­ted addi­tion­al fund­ing, tak­ing the total invest­ment to over £3 mil­lion. The fun­drais­ing strategy for the emer­gency plan focuses on upscal­ing this approach.

The emer­gency plan offers sig­ni­fic­ant oppor­tun­it­ies for non-gov­ern­ment­al organ­isa­tions, private sec­tor entit­ies and loc­al com­munit­ies to lever­age fund­ing which they are best placed to access, to deliv­er pack­ages of work which match theirs and the fun­ders’ objectives.

Pub­lic fund­ing will be focussed on provid­ing long term resi­li­ence through hab­it­at expan­sion and enhance­ment. This will be primar­ily through the Forestry Grant Scheme (FGS), man­age­ment of pub­lic land­hold­ings, Nature Res­tor­a­tion Fund and Peat­land ACTION.

The col­lect­ive agree­ment from a wide range of stake­hold­ers provides assur­ance to fun­ders that the inter­ven­tions out­lined in this plan are the right pri­or­it­ies on which to focus, deliv­er­ing the greatest return for invest­ment for caper­cail­lie and wider biodiversity.

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Man­age­ment and coordin­a­tion Estim­ated budget 2024 – 2030 Pro­ject Man­ager £300,000 Caper­cail­lie Advis­ory Officer £200,000 Hab­it­at expan­sion and enhance­ment Wood­land expan­sion Wood­land graz­ing Sub­ject to identi­fy­ing tar­get areas  Rob­ocut­ting Forest bog res­tor­a­tion Redu­cing impacts of pred­a­tion Diver­sion­ary feeding  Enhanced fox and crow con­trol £60,000

Fence remov­al and mark­ing Remov­al with­in dis­pers­al dis­tance of leks (up to 5km) £500,000 Mark­ing with­in dis­pers­al dis­tance of leks (up to 5km) £1,000,000 Redu­cing dis­turb­ance Site-spe­cif­ic inter­ven­tions * ​‘Dog friendly Cairngorms where wild­life can thrive’ pro­gramme £100,000 Badenoch and Strath­spey Moun­tain Bik­ing Recre­ation Man­age­ment Plan £100,000 Deeside Moun­tain Bik­ing Recre­ation Man­age­ment Plan £100,000

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Lek It Be cam­paign £30,000 Research and mon­it­or­ing Mon­it­or­ing pro­ductiv­ity £50,000 Mon­it­or­ing leks £5,000 Mon­it­or­ing pine marten pop­u­la­tions £60,000 Genet­ic rein­force­ment feas­ib­il­ity study £40,000