Bird Aware Morecambe Bay Project – Expressions of Interest Requested

We are looking for expressions of interest from suitably qualified land management
professionals. We need experience in landowner liaison, a working understanding of
saltmarsh & shingle habitat management & the ability to design & cost practical interventions. Knowledge of the
Morecambe Bay area would be preferred.

We are open to all suggestions on how to successfully deliver the project including
paid employment, secondment, consultancy & freelance, a mix of these options or something
we may not have considered. We welcome applications which involve more than one person in
delivery of the project recognising the differing skill sets needed.

The project is part of a wide-ranging investigation into the ongoing
effects of recreational disturbance on overwintering waders and waterfowl and breeding bird
assemblages within the Morecambe Bay & Lune Estuary SSSIs. This project is funded by
Natural England through their SSSI’s Investigation Fund for an initial period until the end of
March 2025, with possible extension to December 2025, subject to funding.

The successful applicant(s) will work with multiple landowners, tenant farmers and
graziers of stated units of Morecambe Bay SSSI and Lune Estuary SSSI which have been
identified as having saltmarsh and / or vegetated shingle habitat historically utilised by
roosting waders and wildfowl and breeding bird assemblages, but which are now known to be
heavily disturbed by recreational pressures

The project will examine what practical capital work interventions could be possible to create
barriers to non-legitimate access and will explore with
landowners, tenant farmers and graziers how recreational disturbance impacts their businesses
and farming practices and what interventions would be suitable from a nature recovery and
landowner / farmer perspective.

Successful applicants will be able to draw up costed specifications of the potential
interventions ready for when further funding comes available. Please note the project does not
have funding for delivering the practical interventions at this stage.

The full brief with outputs, milestones, funding available, what your EOI should include, contact details
for any questions in advance & an application timetable, can be found here.