Identification

Title

Woodland Bird Priority Areas England 2010

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

This data supported prioritisation of England Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS) Woodland Improvement Grant (WIG) from 2010 in three regions - East Midlands, West Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber. The data defines where applicants were eligible for grant aid in support of reversing the decline in woodland bird species in England. · Woodland bird populations have been in steady decline since the 1970s with 33 species falling by 20% over the last 25 years · Wild birds are considered a good indicator of the general state of the health of the wider environment · The reasons for this decline are many but changes in woodland structure from long term under-management is thought to be a key factor. Together with the RSPB, The Woodland Birds Project aimed to reverse this decline by providing financial support to landowners and managers to improve woodland habitat for birds. These new and innovative grants included the Woodland Birds WIG80 which funded 80% of the cost of eligible operations, and the Reversing Woodland Bird Decline Additional Contribution for woodland creation. Attributes: Descriptr = Name of the priority area Attribution statement: Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://data.forestry.opendata.arcgis.com/

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name:

description: External version on Defra Data Services Platform

Unique resource identifier

code

a1fdf1f9-c208-4b1d-8c64-2ab00476df18

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

England

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

Woodland

Management

Grant schemes

Conservation

Wildlife protection

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Habitats and biotopes

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

forestry

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-5.998468175530274

East bounding longitude

2.383213091511381

North bounding latitude

55.12784909015261

South bounding latitude

50.00731782753117

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2009-01-01

End position

2012-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2010-03-31

date type

revision

effective date

2010-03-31

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

The Project areas were derived from analysis of the regional maps supplied online by the Birds Conservation Targeting Project. County and Unitary Authority boundaries, in addition to other designations and project areas define the majority of the target area boundaries for the West Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber. East Midlands: The Peak District, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire were identified initially by FC as the core target area. In agreement with the RSPB and regional stakeholders, the following Regional Priority Areas were added to the project area (National Forest, Rockingham Forest, Leighfield Forest and Lincolnshire Limewoods) and finally the Lincolnshire Wolds ANOB. These areas have been identified as important areas for wildlife conservation in the both the: Regional Forestry Framework (Space4trees) http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-7bbfng and the East Midlands Biodiversity Strategy http://www.embiodiversity.org.uk/documents.html The project area includes a combination of existing GIS datasets; county boundaries, National Park, National Forest, AONB and FC Regional Priority Areas. North West: From the Bird Conservation Project targeting maps, key target areas were selected around concentrations of the woodland bird assemblages across the whole N W Region. These target areas then form the focus for enhanced grant payment under either the Woodland Improvement Grant 80 or for Additional Contributions under the Woodland Creation Grant. The project area includes a combination of existing GIS datasets; county boundaries, National Park, AONB and FC Regional Priority Areas. The project was launched in April 2010 with Woodland Birds WIG80 and reversing Woodland Bird Decline Additional Contribution guidance.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

1998

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Contains Forestry Commission information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

web address

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/

description: Forestry Commission Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2019-03-21

Metadata language