Our Priorities

Through effective Partnership working the protected landscape plays a crucial role in nature recovery, resilience to climate change and conservation of the historic and natural environment, by consideration of four key priorities

Find out more about our priorities

Find out how our priorities link with global national and local priorities.

Aligning with Global, National and Local Strategies

Our Primary Purpose is to conserve and enhance Natural Beauty.

It is our intention that the status of the Cornwall AONB, as a nationally and internationally important protected landscape – with equal status and protection to a national park, is recognised and understood by all. This includes the landscape characteristics that combine to give the Cornwall AONB its natural beauty, unique identity and sense of place. Through effective Partnership working the protected landscape plays a crucial role in nature recovery, resilience to climate change and conservation of the historic and natural environment, by consideration of four key priorities, People, Place, Nature and Climate.

Cornwall AONB Strategy

Cornwall AONB Strategy

People

Communities in the Cornwall AONB live entirely outside the main towns, within villages, hamlets and scattered farmsteads, dispersed throughout the landscape.

People

Place

The Cornwall AONB is unique and special. The beauty and character of the AONB is primarily owed to the stewardship of generations of farmers and landowners.

Place

Nature

Set against a backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of the natural world and ecological crisis, and intergovernmental reports that the current global response to the effects of human impact on nature is insufficient.

Nature

Climate

The climate emergency is the defining challenge of our time. In January 2019, Cornwall Council declared a climate emergency, recognising the need for urgent action to address the climate crisis.

Climate