Why a digital map is key to estate’s ELM plans

摘要

Castle Howard, with seven tenant farmers and extensive woodland, is using a new tool to help design its environmental strategy. David Jones reports Castle Howard in North Yorkshire has mapped out its biodiversity and carbon footprint to give it a headstart in applying for complex "public money for public goods" environmental schemes in collaboration with its tenants and share farming partner.The 3,500ha estate is the guinea pig for a new natural capital assessment tool which aims to put the picturesque estate in a good position to apply for Local Nature Recovery and Landscape Recovery schemes, the two more extensive tiers of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes that are replacing the area-based Basic Payment Scheme (BPS).