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The Conservation Management System Consortium,
through its membership and the users of its CMS software,
has an unrivalled overview of UK conservation management
plans for protected areas and other nature sites.
The Consortium is in the process of establishing a project
library for sharing good practice between users of its
software. As a complementary resource it is also
important to share planning know how. The CMSC
Planning Network is a start in this direction.
The breakup of the British Nature Conservancy
Council and the establishment of the separate UK nature
conservation agencies for England, Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland has made it difficult to obtain a national
perspective of conservation management. The voluntary
sector is also highly compartmented. In this context,
the project library and the conservation planning network
will help rectify the compartmentation of effort. |
