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BIOSPHERE Strategy


Our Biosphere is here to inspire a positive future by connecting people and nature today. It sounds very dramatic but it is true! North Devon Biosphere is a very special region. You only have to cross the watershed into the river catchment to see it and feel it. It’s not just the wildlife but the landscape, the culture and the people that live there that make the area worthy of the UNESCO designation.

Since we led the way as the UK’s first UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve in 2002, there have been 4 more sites in the UK that have used our model and emulate our success. North Devon Biosphere remains a leader in the UK on ecosystem scale approaches to caring for an area.

Particularly over the last 6 years the Biosphere Partnership has been successfully implementing projects that have cleaned up our water, supported our tourism, farming, fishing and forestry industries and supported the schools universities and colleges. It has helped thousands of people take great enjoyment in the countryside and generally contributed to the well-being of the people in northern Devon. It has literally brought millions of pounds into the area.

The Biosphere designation is unique in bringing disparate sectors together to collaborate to make north Devon a world class area to live in and to visit and keeping it a special place; a place to be proud of.

This strategy uses the fact that Nature provides for this area a whole set of benefits that we can use wisely to give us that secure our future; it addresses the challenges such as climate change, food security and energy security choices, the structure of our economy and how we can benefit as a society. It places a large emphasis on working with the local community to inspire and deliver the future they want.

I am sure that you share these aspirations and we would like to hear from you to see how this can be achieved together.

​Professor Michael Winter OBE
Biosphere Reserve Strategy 2014 to 2024
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