Sands of LIFE Conference, May 2024 - Presentations
Overview
Sands of LIFE Final Conference
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Session 1: Opening of Conference |
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Welcome and introduction |
Nick Thomas, Strategic Project Manager, Natural Resources Wales |
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Opening speech from Natural Resources Wales Chief Executive |
Clare Pillman, CEO Natural Resources Wales |
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Session 2: Sands of LIFE – Five years of action |
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A roundup of project achievements |
Kathryn Hewitt, Sands of LIFE Project Manager |
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A generation of change - sand dune vegetation monitoring |
Steven Heathcote, JBA Consulting, Principal Ecologist |
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Jewels of the dunes – impact of conservation measures on Welsh dune invertebrates |
Mike Howe, Natural Resources Wales, Invertebrate ecologist |
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Session 3: Forestry on dunes |
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Landscape transformations and logistical challenges in Wales |
Laura Davies, SoLIFE Project and Monitoring Officer and Kathryn Hewitt |
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What works best – A trial of interventions following conifer removal |
Mark van Til, Nature Management Advisor, Waternet, Netherlands |
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Past and future conifer removal on Ainsdale Sand Dunes NNR |
Dave Mercer, Manager at Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Reserve, Natural England |
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Session 4: Radical responses |
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Over 15 years of European bison in the dunes of Zuid-Kennemerland |
Esther Rodriguez, PWN, Netherlands
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Implementing the SNAP approach (managing nitrogen air pollution) |
Siobhan Murphy, Monitoring Officer Dynamic Dunescapes |
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We did not expect that! Our first experience translocating rabbits |
Luc Geelan, Nature Management Advisor, Waternet Netherlands |
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Recreating dunes on agricultural land |
Jeppe Pilgaard, Biologist & Project Manager, Thy National Park, Denmark |
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Session 5 and 6: Site visit |
Not recorded |
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Controlling invasive alien species – lessons learnt from the LIFE DUNIAS project |
Reinhardt Strubbe, LIFE DUNIAS Project Manager, Belgium |
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Going out with a bang – coping with unexploded ordnance |
Lucy Smith, SoLIFE Project and Monitoring Officer |
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Valuing dunes – socio - economic benefits |
Kate Linck, SoLIFE Finance and Admin Officer |
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Session 8: Facing the future |
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Around the UK – future plans, ambitions and strategies |
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Scotland |
Stewart Angus, NatureScot |
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England |
Marina Pugh, Coastal Habitats Senior Specialist Advisor, Natural England |
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Wales – including the Welsh Sand Dune Strategy |
Julie Creer, Coastal Habitats Lead Specialist Advisor, Natural Resources Wales |
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UK Sand Dune and Shingle network relaunch |
Paul Rooney, Senior Lecturer, Liverpool Hope University & Ben McCarthy, Head of Nature Conservation National Trust |
Areas
- All Areas
Audiences
- Fly-fishing
- Cockles
- Newport Green and Safe Spaces
- Rivers
- Flooding
- Llifogydd
- Community Volunteers
- Gwirfoddolwyr Cymunedol
- Management
- marine developers
- marine planners
- South West Stakeholder group
- Citizens
- National Access Forum
- citizens
- water companies
- NFU
- DCWW
- Anglers
- Coal Authority
- Educators
- SoNaRR2020
- Mine recovery specialists
- Arbenigwyr adfer mwyngloddiau
- Metal mines
- Mwyngloddiau metel
- Coastal Group Members
- Wales Biodiversity Partnership
Interests
- Species Licence
- Trwydded Rhywogaeth
- Regulatory Voice
- Permits
- Trwyddedau
- Llais Rheoleiddio
- Waste
- Flooding
- Llifogydd
- Community Voulnteering
- Gwirfoddoli Cymunedol
- Forest Management
- Rheoli Coedwig
- National Access Forum
- EIA
- Development
- South West Area Statement
- Newport Green and Safe Spaces
- Community Engagement
- WFD
- water framework directive
- water planning
- Dee
- river basin planning
- Fruitful Orchard Project
- Professional learning
- Acorn Antics
- Terrestrial ecosystems and species
- Fishing
- Biodiversity
- SoNaRR2020
- Engagement
- Customer Experience
- The Hub
- Customer Journey Mapping
- Consultation
- Stakeholder Management
- Mine recovery
- Adfer mwyngloddiau
- Metal mines
- Mwyngloddiau metel
- Timber sales
- Strategic review of charging
- Marine Area Statement
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion