1. Natura 2000 Management and Restoration Programme for Wales
Coordinating Beneficiary: Countryside Council for Wales
Programme Manager Kathryn Hewitt
With the contribution of the LIFE financial instrument of the European Community

2. Natura sites in Wales Orange: SAC 92 sites Green: SPA 20 sites Total area of N2K in Wales: c. 700,000 ha 8.5% of land area 35% of territorial waters © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. Countryside Council for Wales,

3. Details of project Run by Countryside Council for Wales
Sept 2012 – Dec 2014
€1.3 million budget – 50% LIFE, 50% CCW
7 dedicated members of staff & €300k worth of contractors
19 detailed actions to be delivered to strict timetable – days and costs are itemised
High level of involvement from internal specialists and external stakeholders – 28 workshops plus individual meetings

4. Actions and outputs
Collation of evidence from a range of existing sources
Action Plans – moving on from existing management plans to focus on actions to be delivered over , with priorities, timing, costings and funding sources
Development of existing database
Programme for Wales – strategic, prioritised, influential.

5. Main sources of N2K funding in Wales
Management agreements – CCW/WG funds (22% of terr SACs)
LIFE – 8 in Wales since 1995
Agri-environment schemes e.g. Glastir – WG funds (40% of terrestrial N2K sites) – N2K is one of several targeted priorities
Protective landowners’ direct funds e.g. National Trust, CCW, Forestry Commission Wales
National and local grants, schemes and partnerships e.g. Welsh Government, local authorities
Single Farm Payment – CAP. Supports marginal farming but doesn’t promote N2K objectives specifically
ERDF – for visitor management, tourism promotion etc

6. Link with national PAF
CCW producing a PAF for Wales in 2012, to be amalgamated into a UK PAF.
PAF is being produced separately from the LIFE N2K project.
LIFE N2K project will “provide primary & substantive basis for review and elaboration’ of Welsh PAF.