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Sustainable Aggregates Creating Environmental Improvements through Biodiversity ecological functions, but also for people • The project needs a public outreach element, and enhancing public access to sites should be a priority • The project needs to engage with children • There needs to be a more strategic overview of the creation of aggregate habitats in the wider landscape, to identify their potential contribution to nature conservation • Less money should be spent on inappropriate restoration schemes, and more on public access and longterm restoration management • The importance of aggregate sites for invertebrate conservation needs to be advocated to planners, the aggregates industry and other key decision-makers • The public benefits of restoring sites for their invertebrate interest – such as access, recreation and education – need to be widely communicated • The mineral planning process needs to be reviewed to identify how it can provide greater benefit to invertebrate biodiversity • Invertebrates need to be considered at an early stage in site restoration planning, and schemes should not be finalised without any consideration of the likely impacts upon invertebrate populations • The benefits of invertebrate habitat creation – economic, environmental and social – need to be emphasised more during the planning process • Any perceived obstacles to altering already agreed Mineral Restoration Plans need to be addressed • The planning process should widen its focus beyond recreating UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP) priority habitats • Existing projects on minerals and nature conservation need to be integrated, to prevent needless duplication of time, effort and resources. Any attempts to bring these initiatives together would clearly be welcomed by the industry • Existing links between geological and biological site management should be strengthened Key products: • Plan to produce a best practice guide to minerals site restoration for invertebrates • Draft strategy for dissemination of best practice • Costed programme of survey work required to support this • Costed plan and schedule for production of a best practice guide Impacts (Actual): The project outlines the need for and provides a costed approach to producing a best practice guide to minerals site restoration for invertebrates. This should lead to the production of such a guide becoming a reality. Impacts (Potential): Once produced, the best practice guide should increase and disseminate knowledge on invertebrate issues, and raise awareness among the minerals industry and other stakeholders. The project should also raise awareness among the public, including children, about the potential value of minerals sites, and act as an advocacy tool both for the industry and for conservation. Gaps in knowledge and further issues that need to be addressed are likely to be identified through the project. Potential Expansion: Recommendations made by the report were to be incorporated into development of a ‘Bringing Aggregates Sites to Life’ project. Dissemination: Plans for dissemination of the best practice guide are laid out in the report. It is planned to have a nominal charge for copies, but that copies could be subsidised through industry support or advertising. The guide will be 80
free of charge to key stakeholders. Marketing will be carried out through a mailing list to the target audience, and adverts will be taken out in industry, local government and planning publications. Further promotion will be achieved through a one page leaflet and a press pack. Additional copies will be available to the public and others through Buglife. A feedback process will help to ensure that the intended users of the Guide have the opportunity to comment on a draft. There will also be an opportunity for end users to provide constructive feedback on the Guide once it has been published. DEVELOPING POLICY AND BEST PRACTICE IN RELATION TO RESTORATION FOLLOWING MINERALS EXTRACTION – RESOLVING CONFLICTS WITH AVIATION (MIRO, ODPM, DCLG - CSL, RSPB) Analysis of Waterbody Characteristics and Bird Populations Andrew Robinson, Carola Deppe (Central Science Laboratory) March 2004 Sustainable Aggregates Creating Environmental Improvements through Biodiversity Project Type: GIS analysis Site: numerous sites throughout Great Britain Project Aim: To attempt to discover if relationships (identified on some sites in the previous two reports) could be found between the physical and botanical characteristics of lakes and the numbers of waterfowl using them, in a larger sample of former mineral extraction sites To attempt to discover key morphological characteristics of water bodies that could be used to predict bird numbers Main Methods: Analysis of simple relationships between water body size and shape (on former mineral extraction sites), and types of bird using the habitat Data on mineral extraction sites from British Geological Survey (BGS) combined onto a map with counts from the Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS), using ArcView GIS WeBS data divided and dealt with in two separate databases - summer and winter Digital mapping of individual lakes to assemble data on lake area, perimeter length, and number of islands Correlation of lake characteristics with total numbers of waterfowl, and total numbers of different waterfowl guilds (swans, geese, dabbling duck, diving duck, sawbills), to assess determining factors Principle components analysis used to further test results Regression analysis of likely total number of waterfowl to be found on a given pit Main Methods: Analysis of simple relationships between water body size and shape (on former mineral extraction sites), and types of bird using the habitat Data on mineral extraction sites from British Geological Survey (BGS) combined onto a map with counts from the Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS), using ArcView GIS WeBS data divided and dealt with in two separate databases - summer and winter Digital mapping of individual lakes to assemble data on lake area, perimeter length, and number of islands Correlation of lake characteristics with total numbers of waterfowl, and total numbers of different waterfowl 81
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