Conservation advice to the local community
Complementary to the extensive advisory service to farmers in the TEN area offered by the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group, the Upper Waveney Valley Partnership and Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils are also in a position to offer advice to the local community.
The Upper Waveney Valley Partnership's role
Funded jointly by Suffolk and Norfolk local authorities, this partnership has been running for 17 years and covers 43 parishes on the borders of these two counties, much of which makes up part of the TEN area. The UWVP's area of responsibility stretches from the source of the river Waveney on Redgrave and Lopham Fens National Nature Reserve to the market town of Bungay, where the Broads Authority's Executive area begins and carries on down to the mouth of the Waveney at Breydon Water. Its aims are to protect and enhance the landscape and wildlife of this special area. In addition it promotes countryside recreation and works closely with local schools on environmental education. Staff work with landowners, parish councils, local community groups and other organisations to achieve these aims.
As part of TEN the partnership is concentrating its efforts on providing advice on wetland issues in the valley to landowners, especially community landowners and other community interests. It is considering wider issues than those concerned solely with wetlands, such as the needs of birds of prey which should be so much a part of these landscapes. It is also concerned with other detailed features that are, or should be, part of the character of the valley that other organisations are less involved with.
The advisory roles of Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils
As part of their extensive countryside conservation work, each council offers grant aid within its area for specific work to enhance landscape and wildlife interest throughout the TEN area, on public and private landholdings. TEN allows specific concentration to be given to this work and to promote other grant sources beyond the County Councils' that are available to landowners to carry out appropriate habitat and landscape enhancement work. TEN's output targets are not only to provide conservation advice, but also to ensure that this advice leads to the uptake of grant aid from other sources to help finance this work. Necessarily in an area where land ownership is often of quite small areas, this work tends to be very detailed and time consuming, but essential to the overall benefit of the wetland corridor.
Complementary to the extensive advisory service to farmers in the TEN area offered by the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group, the Upper Waveney Valley Partnership and Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils are also in a position to offer advice to the local community.
The Upper Waveney Valley Partnership's role
Funded jointly by Suffolk and Norfolk local authorities, this partnership has been running for 17 years and covers 43 parishes on the borders of these two counties, much of which makes up part of the TEN area. The UWVP's area of responsibility stretches from the source of the river Waveney on Redgrave and Lopham Fens National Nature Reserve to the market town of Bungay, where the Broads Authority's Executive area begins and carries on down to the mouth of the Waveney at Breydon Water. Its aims are to protect and enhance the landscape and wildlife of this special area. In addition it promotes countryside recreation and works closely with local schools on environmental education. Staff work with landowners, parish councils, local community groups and other organisations to achieve these aims.
As part of TEN the partnership is concentrating its efforts on providing advice on wetland issues in the valley to landowners, especially community landowners and other community interests. It is considering wider issues than those concerned solely with wetlands, such as the needs of birds of prey which should be so much a part of these landscapes. It is also concerned with other detailed features that are, or should be, part of the character of the valley that other organisations are less involved with.
The advisory roles of Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils
As part of their extensive countryside conservation work, each council offers grant aid within its area for specific work to enhance landscape and wildlife interest throughout the TEN area, on public and private landholdings. TEN allows specific concentration to be given to this work and to promote other grant sources beyond the County Councils' that are available to landowners to carry out appropriate habitat and landscape enhancement work. TEN's output targets are not only to provide conservation advice, but also to ensure that this advice leads to the uptake of grant aid from other sources to help finance this work. Necessarily in an area where land ownership is often of quite small areas, this work tends to be very detailed and time consuming, but essential to the overall benefit of the wetland corridor.
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