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Foreword

Vice Admiral Peter Dunt CBChief Executive Defence Estates

Chief Executive Defence Estates

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For details on public access to the Defence Estate go to

www.access.mod.uk


A new category for this year was the inclusion of a Special Contribution Award for individual achievements. This attracted four submissions, all of which were considered worthy of an award.

Of the projects submitted for the Sanctuary Award Silver Otter Trophy, the Board found, yet again, that it was exceptionally difficult to judge between them. After deliberation they decided on an outright Winner, joint Runners-Up, and two Highly Commended awards.

Holcombe Moor Heritage Group

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SSSI improvements at Predannack

Leconfield Carrs Conservation Group Yorkshire.

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Striding out from Okehampton Camp across the high moorland of Dartmoor, it is easy to feel you could not be further from government targets and contemporary environmental management systems.

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Managing heather moorland at

RAF Fylingdales is a large site, covering some 800 hectares, with panoramic views across the heather moorland of the North York Moors National Park. However, it is famous to most people over the age of 30 for the ‘golf balls’ that housed the Cold War radars. These have now been replaced by a modern Ballistic Missile Early Warning Station that looks for all the world like a giant toaster.

British agriculture has experienced a huge change in financial support. From 2005, British Farmers no longer receive payments for what they produce; they now receive a single payment based on historic claims and how many hectares they farm.

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The Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy


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A haven for birds

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MOD Biodiversity Strategy

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A partnership project at Predannack AirfieldIn a remote corner of the MOD estate, a partnership project is yielding rich rewards for one of the rarest habitats in the UK. The Royal Navy, Defence Estates, English Nature, National Trust and MOD contractors have worked together to restore traditional patterns of grazing to the heathland that covers much of Predannack Airfield. This grazing project aims to retain the unique habitats and the remarkable assemblage of nationally and locally rare plants and animals that are found on the Lizard peninsula.

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In the spring of 2004, Debut Services

(South West) Ltd, a joint venture

partnership between Babcock

International and Bovis Lend Lease, were

appointed by Defence Estates as prime

contractor in the south west.



a precious resource

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The barrows and burrows of

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“I warned you, but

did you listen to me?

Oh, no, you knew it all,

didn’t you?

Oh, it’s just a harmless

little bunny, isn’t it? Well,

it’s always the same.

I always tell them…”Monty Python and

the Holy Grail


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and Beehive Querns

The Iron Age Cornfield project is a joint project between the Leconfield Carrs conservation group at the Defence School of Transport, and the East Riding Archaeological Society (ERAS)

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a community reunited

In July 2005 English Partnerships acquired the South Yard Enclave site in Devonport, one of the three original towns that make up the city of Plymouth. Once a busy commercial centre, the site had been in the ownership of the MOD and off-limits to the public since the 1950s after being badly damaged during the Second World War.

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The primary purpose of the Defence Training Estate (DTE) is to train soldiers and prepare them for peacekeeping duties or deployment in conflict zones around the world.

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Just a short way along the coast from the bustling seaside resort of Tenby, south Wales, is an area of land of approx. 111 hectares which is owned by the MOD.

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The Uncommonly Dark Beauty of

Bird Crime and

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Western Sovereign Base Area


2005 was a very busy year for the Western Sovereign Base Areas (WSBA) Conservation Group in Cyprus. Amongst a variety of other activities taking place, the group provided advice and information to ongoing projects, presentations to schools and youth groups, conducted annual ornithological surveys and assisted in the protection of turtle nests on the WSBA beaches.

Ascension Island’s extraordinary

biodiversityGreen turtles Chelonia mydas are frequent visitors to the pages of Sanctuary magazine and this year is no exception. However, these green turtles are, as it happens, not in the Mediterranean but way out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on the beaches of the UK overseas territory of Ascension Island (7˚57’S 14˚22’W).

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With the Conservation Groups


There are over 150 Conservation Groups operating across the MOD Estate. The following section provides an update on the dedicated work of some of these groups.

30 Years of Conservation

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Bedfordshire

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Cambridgeshire


Cornwall

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Cumbria


Dorset

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Dorset


Dorset

Hampshire

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Hertfordshire

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Home Counties Conservation Groups


Isle of Wight

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Kent


Scotland

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Northampton


Shropshire

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Suffolk


Surrey

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Warwickshire


Wiltshire

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East Yorkshire


North Yorkshire

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North Yorkshire

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