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8 November 2013

SCaMP Wins CIEEM Best Practice Awards

Great news for PAA and the Sustainable Catchment Management Programme (SCaMP) project – Penny was absolutely delighted to receive not one but TWO Best Practice Awards from CIEEM this week at the annual conference in Southampton. There are three categories in this type of the Best Practice Awards:

• Outstanding achievement in Practical Nature Conservation
• Outstanding Innovation
• Outstanding Knowledge Exchange and Promoting Best Practice

If you win enough points for the first and one other you can also qualify for the overall Tony Bradshaw Award. Penny applied for all three categories and was overjoyed to win the Outstanding Innovation and Outstanding achievement in Practical Nature Conservation categories (there were no winners of the third category or overall award) for United Utilities’ Sustainable Catchment Management Programme.

Phil Austin, UU’s project manager was with Penny to receive the awards at the conference (see photo).

PAA is delighted to receive these awards – the SCaMP project is truly a large landscape-scale project that provides a holistic, sustainable way forward for the farm tenants and the habitats, enhancing and restoring the hydrology and habitat structure and function to various aspects of the upland environment (largely but not exclusively blanket bog and dwarf shrub heath).

PAA has been monitoring the hydrology and vegetation of the different sites in The Forest of Bowland and the Peak District since 2005, building a significant data base and knowledge of the processes and outcomes of the project. The reports can be downloaded using the links below, and further information on SCaMP and how this has developed into SCaMP2 are at corporate.unitedutilities.com/scamp.