Chris Woodley-Stewart, NAAONB Vice Chairman and North Penines AONB Partnership delivered a presentation on LNPs, NIAs and Landscape-scale work in AONBs

1. Chris Woodley-Stewart
NAAONB and
North Pennines AONB Partnership

2. LNPs, NIAs and
Landscape-scale work in AONBs

3. Landscape-scale conservation?
• Landscape scale conservation is a
concept that has arisen, primarily in the UK
• Among the leading response to both the
since the mid-1990s, in exponents of UK
challenges of climate change and a
landscape scale conservation are the
perceived excessive focus on
Areas of Outstanding aims to take an
site based conservation. It Natural Beauty
holistic approach, looking not just at
(AONB). issues, but also issues such as
biodiversity
local economies and agriculture, eco-tourism
• There are 49 AONB in the social
, geodiversity and the health and UK
benefits of the environment.

5. HLF Landscape
Partnership Schemes

6. Other landscape-scale
conservation schemes

12. IBDAs
Lifescapes
Futurescapes
Living Landscapes

13. Nature Improvement Areas
Final 12
Top 20
Others turned to new work

18. Local Nature Partnerships
Lead / co-lead
Active partners

24. To take away….
• There’s been joined-up, innovative ‘Nature
Improvement’ in Areas of Outstanding Natural
Beauty for many years
• NIAs (and LNPs) are ‘a good thing’ and we have
risen to their challenge with some innovative
stuff. Long-term support for the underpinning
concept is vital.
• We need to keep raising our game