Capercaillie conservation in the spotlight for CNPA Board - Cairngorms National Park Authority
Capercaillie conservation in the spotlight for Cairngorms National Park Authority Board
The board of the Cairngorms National Park Authority have agreed to support a range of measures to help capercaillie, following the publication of a scientific report earlier this year, which said urgent action was required if the species is to survive.
Members were asked to consider a range of options to support capercaillie and to advise on the CNPA’s key priorities for action, taking account of the NatureScot Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) report and the CNPA led Cairngorms Capercaillie Project.
The options presented to members include looking at new ways of preventing disturbance to capercaillie by human activity; possible expansion of diversionary feeding of predators; enhanced predator management and consideration of measures to remove protected species from core capercaillie areas; along with fence marking and removal.
The CNPA has been supporting land managers involved in capercaillie conservation since the publication of the capercaillie framework in 2015, as well as taking forward the strategic coordination of conservation efforts. In 2018, working with a wide range of partners, the Park Authority was successful in the development and subsequent delivery of the National Lottery-funded Cairngorms Capercaillie Project, which puts people at the heart of capercaillie conservation in order to find sustainable solutions to the issue of human disturbance and other causes of population decline.
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Posted On: 13/06/2022