| Tayside Biodiversity - Tayside
Biodiversity Action Plan - Coastal - Sand Dunes |
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OPPORTUNITIES
AND CURRENT ACTION
Management plans for
all designated sites to be kept current.
Broughty Ferry LNR Management Plan is on a five year cycle.
Site Condition Monitoring programme being carried out by SNH.
SNH also monitors all SSSI notified interests on a 6-yearly basis. This
could be supplemented in between by other work (potentially by others).
Conservation Group involving MoD at Barry Links (large proportion of
Tayside’s sand dune resource).
Tay Estuary Forum and overall plan for Integrated Coastal Zone Management. |
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Case
Study
Tern Project, Barry Buddon
During the 1950s Barry Buddon was home to five
different species of tern consisting in total several
thousand breeding pairs. Today no terns breed on
the site. The decline in the breeding population may
have been the result of habitat disturbance and the
subsequent reduction in suitable nest sites. Such a
decline in tern numbers probably began before the
Ministry of Defence increased activity on the site
over a decade ago. However, the area’s increased
usage has led to a public access restriction to
Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons, perhaps
making it once more suitable for terns.
Members of the Tayside Biodiversity Partnership are working
together to encourage the terns back to this
important site. Clay bird ‘decoys’ have been made,
mostly using Carse of Gowrie clay, and some have been
fired in the Dundee College pottery kilns. The local community,
including local schoolchildren, have helped
paint the models in readiness for siting near the lighthouse.
Shelters and ‘tern calling-tapes’ may also be used
to further attract the terns to breed on the site. It is hoped
local volunteers will keep the site suitable for
terns and long term planning, together with site monitoring,
will assess the various management approaches
used. |
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OBJECTIVES & TARGETS
Objectives |
Targets |
1 |
Protect the existing sand
dune resource in Tayside from further losses to anthropogenic
factors, allowing for natural processes and replacing
deterioration with positive conservation. |
No net loss in area or reduction of quality
of habitat beyond 2005. |
2 |
Where conditions allow manage the coast
in sympathy with natural processes, allowing soft-sediment
coasts to function as natural coastal defences. |
Allow the natural functioning of the coast
where possible. |
3 |
Where conditions allow attempt to restore
areas of sand dune lost to forestry, agriculture or other
human uses. |
Restore degraded sand dunes, where realistic,
by 2010. |
4 |
Continue determining in detail the area,
extent and condition of sand dune habitats in Tayside. |
Complete survey of all sand dune habitat
by 2003. |
5 |
Maintain and protect the quality and integrity
of designated sites. Ensure that the current set of management
plans is completed and that monitoring of
sites goes ahead. Seek to apply principles of management
plans to all sand dune habitats in the region. |
Keep up-to-date management plans for all
designated areas. |
6 |
Set up a five-year programme to raise
awareness of coastal biodiversity, its importance, the
fragility of the coast and the need for its conservation
in Tayside. Include sand dunes in this programme. |
Set up a public awareness programme by
2002.
Run public awareness programme until 2007. |
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