Why change the Dyfi Biosphere Reserve?
Because UNESCO have modernised the definition of a Biosphere Reserve and the old Biosphere Reserve in the lower Dyfi valley no longer fits that definition. If we don’t change the Biosphere Reserve, UNESCO will have to take us out of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves and we will lose an opportunity. The UK applied to UNESCO for a Biosphere Reserve in the lower Dyfi Valley way back in 1976 when Biosphere Reserves were still just ‘super nature reserves’. The UK then left UNESCO in the 1980s because of disputes relating to the political climate of the times. Whilst we were out of UNESCO they had a complete re-think about what a Biosphere Reserve should be, and came up with the present concept that they aren’t conventional nature reserves, but places for people and nature. Nothing changed on the Dyfi, but the definition of a Biosphere Reserve changed. The current Dyfi Biosphere Reserve is too small and doesn’t have any Buffer Zone or Transition Area. However, it does have tremendous p
Because UNESCO have modernised the definition of a Biosphere Reserve and the old Biosphere Reserve in the lower Dyfi valley no longer fits that definition. If we don’t change the Biosphere Reserve, UNESCO will have to take us out of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves and we will lose an opportunity. The UK applied to UNESCO for a Biosphere Reserve in the lower Dyfi Valley way back in 1976 when Biosphere Reserves were still just ‘super nature reserves’. The UK then left UNESCO in the 1980s because of disputes relating to the political climate of the times. Whilst we were out of UNESCO they had a complete re-think about what a Biosphere Reserve should be, and came up with the present concept that they aren’t conventional nature reserves, but places for people and nature. Nothing changed on the Dyfi, but the definition of a Biosphere Reserve changed. The current Dyfi Biosphere Reserve is too small and doesn’t have any Buffer Zone or Transition Area. However, it does have tremendous p
