Chris Woodley-StewartNAAONB and

North Pennines AONB Partnership

LNPs, NIAs and Landscape-scale work in AONBs

Landscape-scale conservation?

• Among the leading exponents of UK landscape scale conservation are the Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).

• There are 49 AONB in the UK

• Landscape scale conservation is a concept that has arisen, primarily in the UK since the mid-1990s, in response to both the challenges of climate change and a perceived excessive focus on site based conservation. It aims to take an holistic approach, looking not just at biodiversity issues, but also issues such as local economies and agriculture, eco-tourism, geodiversity and the health and social benefits of the environment.

HLF Landscape Partnership Schemes

Other landscape-scale conservation schemes

IBDAs

Lifescapes

Futurescapes

Living Landscapes

Nature Improvement AreasFinal 12

Top 20 Others turned to new work

Local Nature Partnerships

Lead / co-lead

Active partners

To take away….• There’s been joined-up, innovative ‘Nature

Improvement’ in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty for many years

• NIAs (and LNPs) are ‘a good thing’ and we have risen to their challenge with some innovative stuff. Long-term support for the underpinning concept is vital.

• We need to keep raising our game