TechDis Accessibility Essentials 3: Creating Accessible Presentations

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TechDis Accessibility Essentials 3 Creating
Accessible Presentations

• This presentation on the Studland National
  Nature Reserve shows how images can be utilised
  heavily within a presentation.
• Navigate through the slides to show the images.
  The notes field provides a textual description of
  the images.

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Ecosystem Management and Biodiversity Action Plans

• Why is Studland unique?
• What management issues affect the NNR?
• How does Studland fit into the bigger picture
  of the Natural Area?
• What are the major challenges ahead?

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Why is Studland Unique? - 1
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Why is Studland Unique? - 2

• Ecological Range

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Why is Studland Unique? - 3
Plant colonisation and succession

• Ecological Process

Psammoseres
Hydroseres
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Why is Studland Unique? - 4

• Specialists

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What Management Issues Affect the NNR? - 1

• Conflict 1 - Nature .v. Nature
• Heathland .v. Scots Pine.
• Rhododendron.
• Pirri-pirri burr (from New Zealand via scrap wool
  for soil treatment) widespread in car parks.
• Slipper Limpet (from North America with
  introduced Oysters) now commonest shell on the
  beach.

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What Management Issues Affect the NNR? - 2

• Conflict 2 - People .v. People
• Jet skis .v. Swimmers.
• Naturists .v. Clothed.
• Dog walkers .v. Horse riders Bathers.
• Bird Watchers and everyone else (especially
  Naturists!).

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What Management Issues Affect the NNR? - 3

• Conflict 3 - People .v. Nature
• Trampling destroys vegetation cover, allowing
  dune "blow-outs" to occur.
• Dog walkers disturbing ground nesting birds.
• Picnickers and litter.
• Fire risks.

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What are the Main Management Strategies? - 1

• Managing Conflicts
• Zoning.
• Provision.
• Exclusion.
• Policing.
• Educating informing.

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What are the Main Management Strategies? - 2

• Identify features of high national /
  international significance at Studland

• Plant communities - Foredune - Mobile dunes -
  Dune grassland - Dune heath - Dry, humid and wet
  heathland - Mires and bog-pools

Reptiles - Sand lizard, Smooth snake Breeding
birds - Dartford warbler - Nightjar - Hobby
Invertebrates - Moths - Ground and shore bugs -
Beetles - Grasshoppers and crickets
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What are the Major Challenges Ahead?

• Traffic4.3 M visitors and rising.
• Park and ride? Steam railway extensions?
• Car park - potentially diminishing - coastal
  erosion.
• Mad cows and mad bureaucracy.

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Discuss

• Do conservation policies hinder conservation?
• Is the environment paying for the mistakes of
  intensified farming?

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Management Summary