Cairngorms National Park Partnership Plan 2022-27 - Other - Page 29
Nature
The interaction between people and
nature is central to addressing many of
the challenges we face in the National
Park and in society more generally. There
is a need to find solutions to the climate
emergency and biodiversity crisis that
have nature at their heart.
As the UK’s largest protected area – home to one
quarter of the UK’s rare and endangered species –
the Cairngorms should be a rural exemplar of this
approach, and in this section we identify a range of
measures to conserve and enhance nature in the
National Park. This means addressing a number of
sections of this plan, and we believe that there will
be significant opportunities over the next 25 years
for all those currently involved in land management.
Alongside this, additional jobs will be created in
areas such as peatland restoration, river restoration,
species management and habitat enhancement.
There is also a need to base our approach on the
best available data and to adapt as we proceed to
ensure we are delivering the long-term targets set
out in the plan. We have set out a series of targets
and indicators alongside each objective and we will
be reporting on these on an ongoing basis, tracking
our progress and informing future decision-making.
significant land use and ecological issues over the
next 25 years that will continue to have positive
effects in the National Park for the next 200 years.
We do not pretend that this process will be easy.
Achieving the kind of systemic change we are
talking about will require a massive collective effort
across all areas of society. We need to ensure
that this takes place as part of a just transition,
supporting people in different sectors to both take
new opportunities and share traditional skills that
will be needed to deliver this plan. We have set out
a range of measures to support people and jobs
across the National Park in the People and Place
Image of a red squirrel by Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION
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