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Working in partnership with business- case studies on conserving swifts Apus apus � 1 st May 2013 � Partnership? What's that all about? � Parties � agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests �

It � s how we work- � its in our nature �

Partnerships � Partnerships with individuals � With businesses � With interest based organisations � With schools, universities, governments � and various combinations thereof! � but it all comes down to - � Can we � advance our mutual interests �

Partnerships with business � 2005 Sniffer project UKCCO4 � Business and Biodiversity

Belfast Airport and RSPB � Case study was on partnership between RSPB and Belfast City Airport on managing bird strike

Lagan Group and Biodiversity in Quarries

Partnerships � Partnerships � present the involved parties with special challenges that must be navigated unto agreement �

Unlikely partnership? � What's do businesses have in common with biodiversity conservation?

Business take on conservationists? � Tree huggers! � People who stop you from doing things? � They like bats, badgers and newts! � A real pain � Cost you a lot of money � Birds- messy things!

Conservationists on Business � They love moving earth and demolishing things! � They use a lot of the worlds natural resources and create a lot of waste! � Knock down trees � They damage the environment! -NIMBY

Are they really poles apart?

We have to be practical! � I'm doing a job here � Bring me the solutions not the problems � Can we both benefit? � How much will it cost � Do I have to do it? � Will I get help?

Partnership Approach � How can we advance our mutual interests? � What special challenges must we navigate together to reach agreement and ensure fruition?

Crescent Arts Centre � 136 years old � 2007- 2010 - £8.7 million refurbishment and new build project. � Housed N Irelands largest know Swift colony built up over at least 110 years.

This fellow here!

The common swift � Apus apus � NEVER LANDS � except to breed � can � t perch � sleeps on wing � drinks on wing � mates on wing � how can it do this? � breeds � May June July- then to S. Africa.

It comes from Africa to nest under the roof each year

Braecom, Hamilton Architects and Gilbert-Ash N.I. Limited.

The most important single step in advancing mutual interests

Know the species/habitat requirements!

You need to be there- sometimes hands on

And its not for the faint hearted!

You need to know what you are doing! � How to refurbish and build -Gilbert Ash and � How to accommodate the swifts � ( or bats or other protected species or habitats- NIEA/NGO) � Need to understand and trust each other

Outcome - we got a refurbished old building � and new build.

We have old nest sites and built in new ones

We spent our £8.7 million! and hard work brings deserved rewards

It was a genuine partnership! � We worked hands on together � � I did my job � the partners did theirs � We both learned from and understood each other � It was win win win and we all won!

Outcome � Belfast's built and natural heritage conserved

We have a new awareness of the Swifts

And we still have them!

Swifts Inspire- Ted Hughes. � � They � ve made it again/ Which means the globe � s still working . . . �

Ongoing projects with business- � you need to inspire �

Crumlin Swift Tower - Stoneyford Engineering Ltd.

Translink � following on from Biodiversity Officer � s work

Stoneyford Engineering Ltd

Belfast � a Swift City � RSPB is organising a Belfast wide Swift survey this year as part of a campaign to make Belfast a SWIFT CITY. � ( Haley Sherwin )

Parliament Buildings � Northern Ireland Assembly are very keen to establish a colony from scratch with a sound system � Ulster Museum � Don't push it!

SKAINOS Building

Partnership � 3 pronged attack!

Swifts inspire! � Ted Hughes in his poem � Swifts � describes their flight as- � -- � a bolas of three or four wire screams jockeying across each other on their switchback wheel of death. � � ------- -- � � They swat past hard fletched, veer on the hard air, toss up over the roof and are gone again � .

Back to roam across the South African continent!

YES!