Transcript Hants & Wight LNP Debbie Tann HIWWT

Introduction to the Hampshire and Isle of
Wight Local Nature Partnership
Debbie Tann, Chief Executive
Hampshire & Isle of Wight
Wildlife Trust
Natural Environment White Paper
• First Government environmental
policy for 20 years
• Fundamental change in
understanding
• Critical value of natural environment
as foundation for healthy economy
and society
• Need for integration of policy areas –
no more silos
• Key role of Local Partnerships
… Our vision for Living Landscapes and Seas is where … wildlife and
habitats are recovering from past declines and our resource use is
better for wildlife … the natural environment is adapting well to
climate change … ecosystems are healthy and functioning,
underpinning the health of society and the economy … people are
inspired by, and engaged in protecting, the wildlife they value
Lawton Review “Making Space for Nature”
“There is compelling evidence that England’s collection of wildlife
sites are too small and too isolated, leading to declines in many of
England’s characteristic species. With climate change, the
situation is likely to get worse.”
“This is bad news for wildlife but also bad news for us, because
the damage to nature also means our
natural environment is less able to
provide the many services upon which
we depend.”
“We need more space for nature.”
Professor Sir John Lawton 2010
Bigger, better, more joined up
17% of Hampshire butterflies and
moths lost; 9% still declining.
85% of Hampshire SSSI wetland
sites are in “unfavourable no
change” or “unfavourable declining”
condition
Isolated nature reserves, fragmented
and vulnerable
Every county in the UK is losing on
average, one species of wild plant
every two years
Since 1981 our population has risen
by 17% but accessible green space
has only increased by 5%. 80% of
all accessible green space has a
nature conservation designation.
UK National Ecosystem Assessment
Ecosystem Services are the benefits provided by
ecosystems that contribute to making human life
both possible and worth living.
Products such as food and water
Processes such as regulation of floods, soil erosion
control, disease outbreaks, pollination
Non-material benefits such as recreational and
spiritual benefits in natural areas
Biodiversity underpins all ecosystem services
“We need an integrated, landscape-scale
approach to managing the natural environment to
restore declining ecosystem services”
“The natural world, its biodiversity and its ecosystems are critically
important to our well-being and economic prosperity, but are consistently
undervalued in conventional economic analyses and decision making.”
“We place an economic value on nature’s commodities such as food, fuel
and minerals but not on the services we get from nature such as climate
regulation, flood control, water purification and outdoor space for
relaxation and recreation.”
“Our stock of natural capital, especially biodiversity-rich areas is seriously
depleted. Our wildlife areas do not represent a coherent and resilient
ecological network capable of responding to climate change or providing
all the essential support services that humankind needs.”
Government vision for Local Nature Partnerships:
“In developing this White Paper, we have received one
particularly clear message: effective action to benefit nature,
people and the economy locally happens when the right people
come together in partnership”
“We will encourage and support Local Nature Partnerships where
local areas wish to establish them. These partnerships will work
at a strategic scale to improve the range of benefits and services
we get from a healthy natural environment. They will aim to
improve the multiple benefits we receive from the good
management of the land.”
The overall purposes of an LNP are to:
“Drive positive change in the local natural environment, taking a strategic
view of the challenges and opportunities involved and identifying ways to
manage it as an integrated system for the benefit of nature, people and
the economy.”
“Contribute to achieving the Government’s national environmental
objectives locally, including the identification of local ecological
networks, alongside addressing local priorities.”
“Become local champions influencing decision-making relating to the
natural environment and its value to social and economic outcomes, in
particular, through working closely with local authorities, Local Enterprise
Partnerships (LEPs) and Health and Wellbeing Boards.”
Hants & Wight LNP
Capacity building phase February – June 2012
• Currently being led by HIWWT
• Two counties plus marine
• Interim steering group of 14 supporting partners; more than 50
supporting as part of wider forum
• Building on existing local partnerships and engaging more widely
• Bid for formal recognition submitted 6 June – will hear whether
successful by late July
• Using 4 Ecosystem Services themes to build workplans and priorities
• Formal Board structure to be populated in due course
LNP Area:
Hampshire
Isle of Wight
Solent and
South Wight
Seas
The LNP should be:
• Strategic and visionary
• Challenging
• Commissioning
• Independent
• Enabling - for partnership delivery
• Learning from / using evidence
• Outputs and benefits driven
• Positive / solutions focused
• A true partnership – not relying on one or two
organisations
What might the LNP do?
• Develop a shared vision and set of agreed priorities for local ecological
networks / green infrastructure.
• Collective proposals for greening the local economy and enhancing the
economic viability of environmental land management.
• Increase understanding of ecosystem services and how to undertake
local valuations / deliver multiple benefits.
• Add value to existing work and to bring together resources, expertise
and information to help decision making and delivery.
• Specifically support the “duty to cooperate” to allow strategic crossboundary working.
• Focus on solutions and practical applications of the theory, assisting
planners especially.
• Communicate and “sell” the benefits of investing in the natural
environment to all sectors; develop business cases for specific
audiences.
• Foster environmental leadership and a proactive and positive attitude
(benefits not constraints).
• Collective proposals to enhance social, education, and wellbeing
benefits from nature.
• Influence strategic planning as laid out in the NPPF.
• Potentially advise on biodiversity offsetting.
• Develop further Nature Improvement Areas.
• Support partnership projects / act as a forum for collaboration.
• Provide useful toolkits, training, seminars and research.
+ Biodiversity
+ Meat / wool / milk
Adding value
+ Timber / woodfuel
+ Fishing
we can
provide
all this…
+ Flood and water management
+ Carbon storage
+ Resource protection
what is it
worth
to society?
+ Public access / recreation
+ Education
+ Aesthetic beauty
+ Health
+ Quality of life
+ Crime reduction
Provisioning services
Regulating services
Supporting services
Cultural services
The LNP Forum
Knowledge and expertise base, source members for the service groups and board.
Nature ambassador
Invited by the LNP Chair
Role: LNP Advocacy
LNP Co-ordinator
Role: Co-ordination of actions and policy
Developing outputs and materials
LNP Chair
Voted in by the LNP Board
Role: Strategy and Vision
LNP Board
Invited by the LNP Chair and elected by comembers in due course, with leads assigned for
each of the four service groups
Role: Strategy and Vision
Cooperation and Planning
Supporting Services
Group
Role: Task and Finish Actions
Regulating Services
Group
Role: Task and Finish Actions
Provisioning Services
Group
Role: Task and Finish Actions
Cultural Services
Group
Role: Task and Finish Actions
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