Group A - Wildlife

Group B - Wildlife

Group C - Economy

Group D - Recreation and Leisure

Reeds and wetland pan at Cors Dyfi nature reserve

Wildland in Wales
benefits, opportunities and examples - 7, 8th April, Machynlleth

Workshops on benefits of wildland

Small group discussion on wildlife, recreation and economy benefits of wild land are reported in the tables below:

Group A

Feature/
Activity/
Process

WILDLIFE

Benefit and any disbenefit

To which people/stake holders?

How to realise?

How to make it pay?

Other issues eg:

Scale  (local/reg/national/global)
Trends
Timescales

Focus on ecological processes

Demonstrates how nature is open to the unexpected

Reluctance to accept chaos

Less control

Cheaper

Fewer jobs?

Diversity may decrease

Wildlife benefits

Flood and carbon management benefits

Farmers could lose or benefit

Contractors lose

Grant structures

Acquiring land

Land ownership pooled to work at landscape level.

Revise BAP framework

Revision of grant structures

To pay for wider public benefits of land management

Eco-tourism

Build into CAP reform & RDP

Timescale: 2013

Climate change driving reform

More extensive and restricted grazing

Less fertilizer

Less ivomectin sheep dip

Increase scrub/woodland

Viability of agriculture

Loss of grassland

Biodiversity

Loss of amenity?

Farmers

Wildlife

Taxpayers

Inevitable due to CAP reform

Support for natural grazing regimes

Demonstration projects

Value-added food & meat

(organic and rare breeds)

Conservation charities paying for it

Grant structures

Animal welfare

Public acceptance

Public risk

Managing transition for local people

Reintroduction of eg. lynx

Control herbivore populations

Charismatic megafauna

Step change

Branding

Sheep

Public perception

Visitor income from lynx economy

Authorised reintroduction programme

Unauthorised – eg. as in Scotland and in SW England

Pay for any sheep losses

Eco-tourism

Defra

Animal welfare

Scale – need woodland

100% in favour

Group B

Feature/
Activity/
Process

WILDLIFE

Benefit and any  disbenefit

To which people/stake holders?

How to realise?

How to make it pay for?

Other issues eg:

Scale  (local/reg/national/global)
Trends
Timescales

Beaver reintroduction (Dyfi valley)

‘Wow’

Water management

Biodiversity

Tourism

Perceived problems of watercourses and physical damage

Tourist

Farmers

Local people

(small) Grants

Just do it!

Local consultation

Tourism

Neutral?

Soon

Water management

Reafforestaion

Blocking land drains

Erosion control

Water quality

Less flooding

Anyone downstream

Insurance companies

Education

Consultation

Demonstration project

Grant aid

Alternative income from wood (biofuels etc)

Soon

Upland restoration reforestation

 

 

 Already happening?

 

 

Group C

Feature/
Activity/

Process

ECONOMY

Benefit and any  disbenefit

To which people/stake

holders?

How to realise?

How to make it pay?

Other issues eg:

Scale  (local/reg/national/global)
Trends
Timescales

Wildlife as a tourism brand

There are no disbenefits

Link to cultural and natural inheritance

Make future generations proud and confident of their future in the area

Everyone

Economic development

Cultural benefits

Rural Development Regulation

Different emphasis on funding for  countryside – pay for positive action not just to maintain status quo

Marketing ‘Welsh wilderness’, including to overseas visitors

New ways of integration

Refocusing subsidy regime

 

Local accommodation and local food

Less road miles

Less pollution

Better taste

More nutrition

Make economic case for local abbatoirs

Producers

Visitors

Locals

Local economy

Use of new technologies

Marketing

Capital support

No dialogue

Wilderness trails

Access

Visitors

Locals

Capital support

Marketing

Charging for service

Providing hospitality

 

Group D

Feature/
Activity/
Process

RECREATION & LEISURE

Benefit and any  disbenefit

To which people/stake holders?

How to realise?

How to make it pay?

Other issues eg:

Scale  (local/reg/national/global)
Trends
Timescales

Hunting, shooting & fishing

Economic and trickle down income

Social exclusion

Possible access issues

Landowners

Local tourism

Local producers

Quality of hospitality

Availability of game landscape

Pricing strategies

Public attitudes

Attractiveness of home working

External income

Fresh blood

New ideas

Increased house prices

Culture loss & change

Internal & external

Planning

Broadband

Planning

Broadband

Landscape impacts

Growth in outdoor recreation, especially extreme sports

Health

Extra income

Diversification oportunities

Erosion

Tranquillity

User conflicts

Internal & external

Quality of hospitality

Access issues

ROS

Management of carrying capacity

Not necessary bring income

Climate change and physical process

Agri-environment land management

New income stream

Environmental goods

Dependent on grants

Farmers

Public

Environmental benefits

Policy change

Grants worth it!