State of the Park Report - North York Moors National Park

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APPENDIXINTRODUCTIONThe State of the Park report is produced every three years to review broad progress on delivery ofthe National Park Management Plan and to monitor wider environmental, social and economictrends in the National Park. The State of the Park reports focus on outcomes and the general stateof the National Park rather than outputs and the delivery of specific projects or actions. The sameset of indicators has been used over a number of years, enabling longer term trends to be drawnout. This report follows the format of the 2009 report and contains just the headline indicators – awider suite of indicators was contained in the 2006 and 2003 State of the Park reports.A new National Park Management Plan was agreed in 2012 and therefore future State of the Parkreports will be focusing upon delivery of this new Plan, although most of the State of the Parkindicators are still relevant and are identified within the new Plan. It may be appropriate to use adifferent set of headline indicators which better reflect the aims and targets of the new Plan, albeitthat these indicators for which there is a long established set of data will still be monitored.- 2 -State of the Park 2012
APPENDIXLAND MANAGEMENTChange in area of land managed in line with conservation objectives (2009 –2012)+ 1%Area of land managed in line with conservation objectives 21992 1997 2003 2004 2006 2009 2012Totals (hectares) 43,775 71,525 88,811 91,127 101,954 112,690 113,808Source: North York Moors National Park AuthorityThis is a measure of the farmland, moorland and woodland that has some form of agreedmanagement intended to protect, enhance or create sites and features of conservation value inaccordance with the National Park Management Plan objectives. The agreed management maytake a variety of forms including management agreements and grant schemes. The area of landmanaged in this way has increased significantly over the past two decades although more recentlythe rate of increase has slowed due to the fact that a large area of the Park is now managed in afavourable way. Work has instead focussed upon improving further the quality of land managementwithin these areas, and the future focus will be upon improving habitat connectivity in line with thetargets set out in the 2012 Management Plan.BIODIVERSITYChange in the number of breeding Moorland wading birdsNo recent dataThis survey has not been repeated since 2008, the most recent set of results were reported in the2009 State of the Park report and are set out below:Number of pairs of breeding moorland wading birdsLapwing Golden Plover Curlew Snipe Total1996 791 856 1320 243 32102000 939 779 1796 184 36982008 672 832 1629 220 3353Change2000-2008-28% +7% -9% +20% -9%Source: North York Moors National Park Authority – Moorland Wader SurveysThe Moorland Wader Survey forms an in-depth survey (84 x 1km squares) of the breeding successof four wader species; the Lapwing, the Golden Plover, the Curlew, and the Snipe. As reported in2 This includes a range of land management situations including land managed under agri-environment schemes, land designated as aSite of Special Scientific Interest and land owned by the National Park Authority or other body with conservation objectives.State of the Park 2012- 3 -
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