Last updated: October 2021
The Biffa Award awarded the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust with £24,681 in December 2013 for their ‘Lapwings on your Doorstep’ project, which started a number of habitat management activities at Potteric Carr Nature Reserve aiming to benefit a range of species. The project's main objective was to improve breeding conditions for the bird. Workers at the site, near Doncaster reported the scheme would also benefit a wider range of species, both common and rare, including other birds, bats and insects. It will also increase the reserve's value as an important tourist attraction, boosting the local city's economy. (Ref 1, 7).
Lapwings on your Doorstep (2013)
Photographer: Jim Horsefall, retrieved 08/17/2018
Overview
Nature-based solution
- Parks and urban forests
- Large urban parks or forests
Key challenges
- Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
- Habitat and biodiversity restoration
- Habitat and biodiversity conservation
- Green space creation and/or management
- Economic development and employment (SDG 8)
- Tourism support
- Cultural heritage and cultural diversity
- Preservation of natural heritage
- Protection of historic and cultural landscape/infrastructure
Focus
Maintenance and management of urban nature, Monitoring and maintenance of habitats and/or biodiversity
Project objectives
To create and enhance habitat to benefit a range of species, both common and rare, including nesting birds, bats and insects; To increase the touristic value of the Potteric Carr Nature Reserve and boost the nearby towns' economies (Ref 1).
Implementation activities
- Improve the grassland through conservation grazing.
- Create more woodland.
- Improving the site for bats by adding bat boxex.
- Hedgerow planting to help the nature reserve to regain some of its original characters and to provide refuge for many plants and insects (Ref 2).
Biodiversity conservation or restoration-focused activities
Biodiversity conservation:
- Protect and enhance urban habitats
- Promote environmentally-sound development in and around protected areas
- Create new habitats
- Protect species
- Undertake specific measures to protect species
- Undertake specific measures to protect native species
- Undertake specific measures to protect valued species
- Means for conservation governance
- Biodiversity offsets
Biodiversity restoration:
- Restore species (native, endangered, or unspecified)
- Restore native species
- Restore valued species
Main beneficiaries
- Local government/Municipality
- Private sector/Corporate/Company
- Citizens or community groups
Governance
Management set-up
- Led by non-government actors
Type of initiating organisation
- Non-government organisation/civil society
Participatory approaches/ community involvement
- Unknown
Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project
Private sector and NGO: The grant was given through the Biffa Award. This is a fund that is comprised of landfill tax credits acquired from the Biffa company waste services. Although the fund is part of the corporate responsibility scheme of Biffa, the fund is actually managed by the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, a government-independent charity. Thus the grant award is a collaboration between the private sector and an NGO. This was a great boost that realised the project idea (Ref 3 & 4)
NGO: The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust specifically is the main actor in this project. They are the organisation who received the grant as well as the organisation that executes the project (Ref 2)
Project implemented in response to ...
... an EU policy or strategy?
Unknown
... a national policy or strategy?
Yes
(The NBS was not a response to a national strategy, but received additional funding through Natural England's Higher Level Stewardship scheme. This is a funding scheme from the national government's "Natural England" and thus indirectly connected to the national strategy for environmental management (Ref 2).
Biffa Awards aims to support biodiversity across the UK and specifically focusses on species and habitats that have been identified as a priority in the national Biodiversity Action Plans. Thus, indirectly, the project is influenced by a national plan (Ref 10))
... a local policy or strategy?
Unknown
Financing
Total cost
€10,000 - €50,000
Source(s) of funding
- Public national budget
- Corporate investment
- Other
Type of funding
- Earmarked public budget
- Direct funding (grants, subsidies, or self-financed projects by private entities)
Non-financial contribution
No
Impacts and Monitoring
Environmental impacts
- Green space and habitat
- Increased conservation or restoration of ecosystems
- Reduced biodiversity loss
Economic impacts
- More sustainable tourism
Socio-cultural impacts
- Cultural heritage and sense of place
- Protection of natural heritage
- Protection of historic and cultural landscape / infrastructure
Type of reported impacts
Expected impacts
Presence of formal monitoring system
Yes
Presence of indicators used in reporting
Yes
Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports
Yes
Availability of a web-based monitoring tool
No
References
Ref 1: Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. (n.d.). Lapwings. Retrieved from Source link on 21st October, 2020.
Ref 2: Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. (n.d.). Lapwings on your doorstep. Retrieved from Source link on 21st October, 2020.
Ref 3: Doncaster Free Press. (n.d.). Cash boost to help Balby nature reserve. Retrieved from Source link [Not available as on October, 2020]
Ref 4: Biffa (nd.). The Biffa award community. Retrieved from Source link on 21st October, 2020.
Ref 5: Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council. (2014). The Doncaster Green Infrastructure Strategy 2014-2018: Creating a Greener, healthier and more attractive borough.
Ref 6: Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council. (2008). Green spaces, green places: Doncaster's Greenspace Strategy 2008-2011.
Ref 7: Yorkshire Post. (2012). Work to encourage lapwings given 25,000 grant boost. Retrieved from Source link on 21st October, 2020.
Ref 8: Carroll, D. (nd.). Potteric Carr Highflyers.
Ref 9: Natural England. (2013). Higher level stewardship: Environmental stewardship handbook. (4th edition).
Ref 10: Biffa Award. (n.d.). About our funding: Rebuilding biodiversity. Retrieved from Source link on 21st October, 2020.
Ref 11: Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. (n.d.). Current recording schemes. Retrieved from Source link
Ref 12: Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. (n.d.). Lapwing. Retrieved from Source link on 21st October, 2020.
Ref 2: Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. (n.d.). Lapwings on your doorstep. Retrieved from Source link on 21st October, 2020.
Ref 3: Doncaster Free Press. (n.d.). Cash boost to help Balby nature reserve. Retrieved from Source link [Not available as on October, 2020]
Ref 4: Biffa (nd.). The Biffa award community. Retrieved from Source link on 21st October, 2020.
Ref 5: Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council. (2014). The Doncaster Green Infrastructure Strategy 2014-2018: Creating a Greener, healthier and more attractive borough.
Ref 6: Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council. (2008). Green spaces, green places: Doncaster's Greenspace Strategy 2008-2011.
Ref 7: Yorkshire Post. (2012). Work to encourage lapwings given 25,000 grant boost. Retrieved from Source link on 21st October, 2020.
Ref 8: Carroll, D. (nd.). Potteric Carr Highflyers.
Ref 9: Natural England. (2013). Higher level stewardship: Environmental stewardship handbook. (4th edition).
Ref 10: Biffa Award. (n.d.). About our funding: Rebuilding biodiversity. Retrieved from Source link on 21st October, 2020.
Ref 11: Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. (n.d.). Current recording schemes. Retrieved from Source link
Ref 12: Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. (n.d.). Lapwing. Retrieved from Source link on 21st October, 2020.
Lapwings on your Doorstep (2013)
Photographer: Jim Horsefall, retrieved 08/17/2018