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Defining Favourable Conservation Status for seagrass beds

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Project Description

Natural England requires the production of a definition of Favourable Conservation Status in England for seagrass beds. It goes on to anticipate: the production of an initial draft for discussion with the project officer, and the production of further drafts incorporating review comments and feedback from the Natural England quality assurance process. It sees that this will be achieved by populating a standard template provided with the project brief that will be evidence-based with a supporting rationale. Draft guidance on how to achieve these tasks is to be provided to the successful contractor.

The brief requests that proposals provide evidence of the contractor’s knowledge of the seagrass communities’ characteristics from across England and the UK along with evidence of defining FCS. This proposal therefore seeks to provide this evidence in the following sections.

Key objectives comprise:
1. To produce a definition of Favourable Conservation Status in England for seagrass beds; 2. The production of an initial draft for discussion with the project officer, and the production of further drafts incorporating review comments and feedback from the Natural England quality assurance process; 3. The definition should be set out in the template provided by Natural England; 4. The outputs should outline the key evidence relating to seagrass beds; 5. And should clearly set out a definition of FCS in terms of three parameters: natural range and distribution; area; structural and functional attributes (quality); 6. The definition of FCS will be a judgment based on the evidence available; 7. A rationale for the proposed definition will be set out in the template;

The specific approach will follow a draft guidance document on methods for setting FCS for the different parameters – which will be made available to the successful contractor.

Status Project Complete
Value £8,250.00
Project Dates Feb 1, 2019 - Jan 31, 2020
Partner Organisations No Partners

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