Agenda
• Further Questions on RLE PPT
• Explanation of what we will do
• Groups (depends on numbers) to look at
– Criteria A & B
– Criteria C& D
– Approx 1-1.5 hour
• Assign Categories in plenary (0.5 hours)
• So What – we have a risk assessment what does
it mean in terms of conservation action ? (0.5
hours)
• Closure – summary of what done!
Groups
• (depending on data available for exercise)
• Discuss changes that have taken place in
ecosystem condition, extent etc. Use worksheets
to summarize discussions
• If not enough data – use your own views,
experience, and opinions
• Don’t panic if you don’t have all the data can list
as DD (data deficient) or NE (not evaluated). But
give it your best shot!!!
• Come to some agreement on Risk assessment
category (and why) for the criteria you are
working with.
• Present and discuss in plenary
Source: http://www.teagasc.ie/publications/2010/6/6_TResearch_201002.pdf
Clara Bog, Co. Offaly and Surrounding Peatlands
Clara Bog
Source: www.npws.ie
Clara Bog
So what
• Delete power (are the necessary??) Bord na Mona – major employer vs.
ecosystem services (where can people be employed – green energy – wind
– job opps
• Social – cutters convince??
• Not one Dept to deal with (agric., forestry, envr., energy, habitats directive)
• MEA’s, value of services
• Public imagination and why social educ.
• Research- baselines what are they – agri-envr schemes + Connectivity in
bogs?? – so corridors. How res can really inform
• Improved biodiveristy (e.x. otters)
• Role of opps – tourism
• Our peat small by comparision to russia – so is their political will
• Grass roots – make it relevant to voters!! – e.g. Birdwatch Ireland
• Economic models, - tourism, other forms of employment, cranberries
• Cultural connections – make an opportunity, cultural love for peatlands
(ex. Of UK Fenlands)
• Financial beneift
Who??
• Communicate in “language” – media,
• Awareness at diff levels
• We are stubborn lot – how to foster change –
whats the incentive to change when bord no
mona do if!!
• Change at multiple levels
• Need to focus not on just SSEs
• Its not we know best!! – we all knowledge!!