Site condition improvement for protected areas - SSSIs and SACs, species and habs listed under Env. Act Section 7. Estuaries, saltmarsh, HPMCZ - one around skomer to aid scientific work, act as control site to understand human impacts. Advantages from extended Pembs national park into UK's first marine park. Attract investment from private and commercial sectors.
Scale and ambition for nature based solutions. Look at catchments, wide-spread adaptations in catchment management. Seagrass, oyster beds etc. marine features that help filter water, reduced erosion.
Greater need for scale and ambition where things continue to happen. Dune habitats - Bridgend coast etc. engineering, large-scale projects to remobilise systems.
Action: create a picture of ecosystem resilience across the SW as a region &translating it into appropriate scales (a piece of work we are working on in the SW Area Statement; linking in with Local Nature Partnerships). This will include ecosystems at the coast so there are linkages to be had here.