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Tales from a National Park Sarah Fowler Peak District National Park Authority National Parks protected landscapes . Spectacular natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage Opportunity for escape, reflection and adventure and wonder


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Tales from a National Park

Sarah Fowler Peak District National Park Authority

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National Parks – protected landscapes

  • Spectacular natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage
  • Opportunity for escape, reflection and adventure and wonder
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  • 555 sq miles at the heart of

the nation

  • Highly accessible
  • Probably the most visited
  • Transition between upland

and lowland

  • Where the campaign for

national parks began

The Peak District National Park

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Our purposes …

Care for the landscape

  • Community

development Promote enjoyment and understanding

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Our role… … speak up for the place … a convenor for the place

Regulatory Influencing Doing

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Landscape scale conservation

Working in the Dark Peak – what can we learn?

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  • 150 years of pollution

alongside wildfires

  • Left 27 sq km of bare

exposed peat

  • Inhospitable for wildlife and

people

Industrial past left a legacy

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Simple ambition

We set about to bring life back to the moorlands of the Peak District National Park and South Pennies

  • One common purpose
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Convening of partners

  • National Park Authority
  • Environment Agency
  • Natural England
  • Water companies
  • Moorland owners
  • National Trust
  • RSPB
  • Pennine Prospects
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Partners

  • Commitment to the long-term
  • Supporting core costs
  • Accepting leadership by others
  • Purpose first, organisational visibility second
  • Working together towards the common purpose
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A lead partner

  • Inspire the vision in others
  • Convene the partners
  • Accept the cash flow risk and other risks
  • Manage resources
  • Finding solutions from VAT to hedging
  • Providing the governance
  • Taking the risk, making the business of delivery work
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Securing the funds

  • In 2003 we secured £5 million HLF funding to

start work towards this vision

  • In 2010 we secured £10 million EU funding
  • In 2016 we secured £12 million EU funding
  • First funds are crucial, helps growth
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Deliver the outcomes

  • Restored 900ha of badly damaged bog
  • Protected 2,500 ha of active blanket bog
  • Led to global innovation in moorland

restoration

  • Led to scientific endeavour showing the value
  • f restored moorland
  • Being relevant and making a difference on the ground
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Stories are important

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Bare peat erodes at the rate of 25mm a year 1976

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1976 2003

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Active blanket bog grows at 1mm/ year 1976 2003

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2010 1976 2003

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Partnership in action

Coming together is the beginning Keeping together is progress Working together is success

  • It takes reciprocity, trust and cooperation
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We are not new to this….

  • In our DNA… convenor for the National Park

Management Plan

  • In our future… National Parks Partnerships,

Miles without Stiles

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The next 15 years

Maintaining the collaboration:

  • Working outside the National Park boundary
  • Collaboration across programmes
  • Connecting our protected areas landscapes
  • Only just touched on:
  • Community science – inspiring generations
  • Economic science – funding this as a service to the

nation