Maddy JagoNatural England

Maddy Jago, Director, Landscape and Biodiversity

Ecosystems delivery in England

What I’m going to cover

• Natural Environment White Paper and Biodiversity 2020- new approaches to biodiversity delivery

• Valuing ecosystem services and biodiversity assets

• NEWP and Biodiversity 2020: a central role for AONBs

• To end with -three key questions for you

You are key players in delivering Government’s priorities for the natural environment

• 40% of the UK's species rich upland hay meadows

• 80% of England's Black Grouse (and the proposed Northern Upland Chain LNP has the whole population)

• over 20% of England's

blanket bog

North Pennines AONB – biodiversity hotspotNorth Pennines AONB

Yorkshire Peat Partnership

• A collaborative approach demonstrating landscape-scale principles

• Aim is to restore 70% (48,500ha) of Yorkshire’s blanket bog through a programme of grip blocking, gully restoration and bare peat re-vegetation by March 2024

• to raise awareness and promote the multitude of benefits that peatland restoration can provide to a wider audience.

Yorkshire Peatland partnership

Natural beauty and biodiversity

2011

Making Space

for Nature

– Lawton Report 2010

The policy context

Provisioning services

Fresh water

Food (eg crops, fruit, fish, etc)

Fibre and fuel (eg timber, wool, etc)

Genetic resources (used for crop/stock breeding and biotechnology)

Biochemicals, natural medicines, pharmaceuticals

Ornamental resources (eg shells, flowers, etc)

Regulatory services

Air quality regulation

Climate regulation (local temp. /precipitation, GHG sequestration, etc)

Water regulation (timing/scale of run-off, flooding, etc)

Natural hazard regulation (ie storm protection)

Pest regulation

Disease regulation

Erosion regulation

Water purification and waste treatment

Pollination

Cultural services

Cultural heritage

Recreation and tourism

Aesthetic value

Spiritual and religious value

Inspiration of art, folklore, architecture, etc

Social relations (eg fishing, grazing, cropping communities)

Supporting services

Soil formation

Primary production

Nutrient cycling (water recirculation in landscape)

Water recycling

Photosynthesis (production of atmospheric oxygen)

Provision of habitat

Thanks to Mark Everad from EA for this slide

What you don’t consider you may lose!

The ecosystem approach

Valuing nature and paying for ecosystem services

NOT about putting a value on every lapwing or flowerBut we must move away from the current market failure where the most environmentally damaging actions and products are often the cheapest.

Potential opportunity:•Better understanding of true impacts of actions•New markets could develop for some ecosystem services•New ‘partners’ and business opportunities•Better (and cost-effective) outcomes for society and biodiversity •Allowing better focus of scarcebiodiversity funding

“landscape means an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors”

• Landscape is important, because it links culture with nature, and past with present.

• Landscape matters to people and encompasses ‘all ways of seeing’.

• The ELC applies to all landscapes everywhere, and in any condition.

European Landscape Convention

Mission:• halt biodiversity loss,• support healthy well-functioning ecosystems• establish coherent ecological networks• more & better places for nature for the benefit of wildlife and peopleHow?1.A more integrated large-scale approach2.Putting people at the heart of biodiversity3.Reducing environmental pressures4.Improving our knowledge

Biodiversity 2020 – Mission

Terrestrial Biodiversity Group

Responsibilities• 1A Better habitats• 1B More habitats• 1C Integrated

joined up approaches

• 1D Restoring ecosystems

• 3 Species

The challenges• The ecological

challenge: status quo is not enough

• The delivery challenge: ambitious targets, finite resources

• The engagement challenge: catalyse, connect, coordinate

NEWP – new approaches to biodiversity

New approaches to biodiversity

A sample of AONBs – a great contribution towards SSSI condition and biodiversity

AONBs and SSSI condition

1. Jurassic Coast - Dorset AONB, East Devon AONB

2. West Penwith – Cornwall AONB3. Big Chalk – North Wessex Downs

Cranborne Chase, and West Wiltshire Downs AONBs

4. Hampshire Farmers – Chilterns AONB

5. Lime & Ice – Howardian Hills AONB

6. Derwent Valley – North Pennines AONB

7. Wye Valley-Wye Valley AONB8. Connecting Cannock Chase –

Cannock Chase AONB

Working in partnership with you

The evidence base

• What role can your AONB play in delivering NEWP outcomes for biodiversity and ecosystem services?

• What can you do collectively as a family of protected landscapes to demonstrate your biodiversity successes?

• How can Natural England best help you?

Three key questions