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Working in partnership with business- case studies on conserving swifts Apus apus 1 st May 2013 Partnership? What's that all about? Parties agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests It s how we work- its

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Working in partnership with business-

case studies on conserving swifts Apus apus 1st May 2013

Partnership? What's that all about? Parties agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests

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It s how we work- its in our nature

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Partnerships

  • Partnerships with individuals
  • With businesses
  • With interest based organisations
  • With schools, universities, governments
  • and various combinations thereof!

but it all comes down to -

  • Can we advance our mutual interests
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Partnerships with business

  • 2005 Sniffer

project UKCCO4

  • Business and

Biodiversity

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Belfast Airport and RSPB

  • Case study was on

partnership between RSPB and Belfast City Airport on managing bird strike

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Lagan Group and Biodiversity in Quarries

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Partnerships

  • Partnerships
  • present the

involved parties with special challenges that must be navigated unto agreement

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Unlikely partnership?

  • What's do

businesses have in common with biodiversity conservation?

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Business take on conservationists?

Tree huggers! People who stop you from doing things? They like bats, badgers and newts! A real pain Cost you a lot of money Birds- messy things!

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Conservationists on Business

They love moving earth and demolishing things! They use a lot of the worlds natural resources and create a lot of waste! Knock down trees They damage the environment! -NIMBY

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Are they really poles apart?

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We have to be practical!

I'm doing a job here Bring me the solutions not the problems Can we both benefit? How much will it cost Do I have to do it? Will I get help?

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Partnership Approach

  • How can we

advance our mutual interests?

  • What special

challenges must we navigate together to reach agreement and ensure fruition?

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Crescent Arts Centre

136 years old 2007- 2010 - £8.7 million refurbishment and new build project. Housed N Irelands largest know Swift colony built up over at least 110 years.

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This fellow here!

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The common swift Apus apus

NEVER LANDS except to breed can t perch sleeps on wing drinks on wing mates on wing how can it do this? breeds May June July- then to S. Africa.

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It comes from Africa to nest under the roof each year

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Braecom, Hamilton Architects and Gilbert-Ash N.I. Limited.

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The most important single step in advancing mutual interests

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Know the species/habitat requirements!

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You need to be there- sometimes hands on

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And its not for the faint hearted!

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You need to know what you are doing!

How to refurbish and build -Gilbert Ash and How to accommodate the swifts (or bats or

  • ther protected species
  • r habitats- NIEA/NGO)

Need to understand and trust each other

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Outcome - we got a refurbished old building and new build.

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We have old nest sites and built in new ones

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We spent our £8.7 million! and hard work brings deserved rewards

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It was a genuine partnership!

  • We worked hands on

together I did my job the partners did theirs We both learned from and understood each

  • ther

It was win win win and we all won!

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Outcome Belfast's built and natural heritage conserved

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We have a new awareness of the Swifts

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And we still have them!

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Swifts Inspire- Ted Hughes.

  • Theyve made it again/ Which means

the globes still working . . .

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Ongoing projects with business-

  • you need to inspire
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Crumlin Swift Tower - Stoneyford Engineering Ltd.

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Translink following on from Biodiversity Officer s work

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Stoneyford Engineering Ltd

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Belfast a Swift City

RSPB is organising a Belfast wide Swift survey this year as part of a campaign to make Belfast a SWIFT CITY. (Haley Sherwin)

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Parliament Buildings

  • Northern Ireland

Assembly are very keen to establish a colony from scratch with a sound system

  • Ulster Museum
  • Don't push it!
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SKAINOS Building

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Partnership 3 pronged attack!

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Swifts inspire!

Ted Hughes in his poem Swifts describes their flight as-

  • -a bolas of three or four wire screams jockeying

across each other on their switchback wheel of

  • death. ------- --

They swat past hard fletched, veer on the hard air, toss up over the roof and are gone again .

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Back to roam across the South African continent!

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YES!