ANNUAL CONFERENCES
In 2014 we presented the overall targets of the Revised LBAP Action Plans – hosted by Coombe Country Park, Coventry, and kindly supported by the Warwickshire County Council and the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.
Agenda
Examples of Landscape scale delivery:
- Princethorpe Woodlands Living Landscape - restoration of woodlands and future plans: Chris Redstall, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
- Coombe Country Park - restoration of acid grassland and parkland: Murray Hayden, Coventry City Council
- Avon and Leam Catchment Plan delivery: Bob Slater, Campaign for Farmed Environment and Melissa Hoskings, Severn Rivers Trust
- Tame Valley Wetlands Landscape Partnership Scheme - Vision for the future: Tim Haselden, Tame Valley Wetlands Partnership
Delivery of species recovery:
- Farmland Bird project: Matt Willmott, Natural England advisor: update on progress and plans re Natural England funding
- Developing Nature Improvement Areas in Warwickshire – Bigger, better and joined up Local Wildlife Sites and mapping: Chris Talbot, Habitat Biodiversity Audit Partnership
Presentations from the 2014 Conference are available to download here.
In 2010: we focussed on 'Warwickshire's Grasslands' - hosted by Bishop's Itchington Parish Council and kindly supported by Warwickshire County Council and the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.
Agenda
- Environmental Stewardship – a key tool to deliver (local) action for biodiversity.
- Matt Willmott, Natural England
- The Small Blue Butterfly Cupido minimus: the implementation of a successful recovery plan. Mike Slater, Butterfly Conservation
- The Dotted What? Steven Falk, Warwickshire Museum
Local action: Examples of Good Practice
- St Peter’s Church Wellesbourne Wildlife Project, Heather Sims
- The Yellow Land, Chris Redstall
Survey workshops on:
- Phase 1 & 2 Habitat Surveys
- Butterfly Transects
- Wildflowers Count
- OPAL
- BTO Bird Surveys
- National Bat Monitoring Programme
In 2009: we concentrated on 'Planning for Biodiversity' - hosted by Wolvey Parish Council and kindly supported by Warwickshire County Council and the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.
Agenda
- Green Infrastructure Levies and the Dudley Experience
- Alan Preece, Dudley MBC
- The Consultants Perspective of Planning for Biodiversity
- Richard Knightbridge, Entec
Local Action: Examples of Good Practice
- Myton Pool (Mike Hardiman, Friends of Myton Pool)
- Studley Wildlife Site (Bill McCarthy, Studley Parish Council)
- Wolvey Wetlands (Margaret Cartwright, Wolvey Parish Council)
Visits to sites of wildlife interest around Wolvey
The churchyard and community wetland
Wildflower meadow
Workshops on:
- Landscapes for Living and LBAP Habitat Opportunity Mapping
- Impact and Control of Invasive Species
In 2008: we considered the importance of 'Taking Local Action for Biodiversity' - hosted by Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, by kind permission of Lord and Lady Hertford and kindly supported by Warwickshire County Council and the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.
Agenda
- What Local Authorities may consider doing to raise awareness of biodiversity and the NERC Act 2006 and promote community action.
- Paul Cobbing, Chair of the England Biodiversity Group Local and Regional Strategic Implementation Group
- Coventry’s Green Infrastructure Programme, Ian Dudley, Senior Environmental Consultant for Lockhart-Garratt
Local Action: Examples of Good Practice
- Stretton-on-Fosse Parish Biodiversity Group – Dave Passingham
- Leek Wootton Parish Biodiversity Group – Charles Stubbs
- Urban Grassland project – Michelle Osbourn (WWT)
- Access Issues - Geoff Treadwell (WCC)
Workshops on:
- Focus 2008 LBAP programme
- Local action to support Focus 2008
- Local action for biodiversity at the landscape scale
A tour of the grounds of Ragley Hall, led by Steven Falk, Senior Keeper of Natural History at the Warwickshire Museum and leader of Warwickshire’s ‘Big Tree Hunt’.
In 2007: we discussed 'Climate Change: Adaptation and Biodiversity' - hosted by BMW, Coventry, and kindly supported by Warwickshire County Council and the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.
Agenda
- An overview of the problem for biodiversity and how linking habitats can help, Andy Tasker, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
- Conserving biodiversity in a changing climate, Jeff Edwards, West Midlands Biodiversity Partnership
- How the climate in Warwickshire will change and what the WCCP plans to do, Gillian Rutledge, Warwickshire Climate Change Partnership
- Observations of climate change in Warwickshire, Steven Falk, Warwickshire Museum
- A pro-active landscape-scale approach, Julie Fay, Environment Agency
In 2006 we responded to the Minerals Development Framework Core Strategy 'Issues and Options' - hosted by Warwickshire County Council
For more information please contact
Gina Rowe, LNP Secretariat and Head of Living Landscapes (Projects).
t: 024 7630 8976
e: gina.rowe@wkwt.org.uk