Conflicts over the use of Keyhaven Salt Marsh

Background info

• This is Keyhaven Salt Marsh…

Who do you think uses it

and why?

Role play!

Groups;1. Greenpeace (environmentalists)2. Keyhaven Sailing Club3. Keyhaven Angling Society4. Owners of Hurst Castle (Mr & Mrs S. Pit)

Read your groups card to establish what you want to use the marsh for!

Lesson Objective: Conflicts over the use of Keyhaven Salt Marsh

Meeting 1

• You are meeting as a group to decide exactly how you think that Keyhaven marsh should be developed.

• In the top box on your sheet, write a list of how your group wants to use Keyhaven Salt Marsh.

• At the bottom of the top box, you should think about any other groups who you might argue with.

Lesson Objective: Conflicts over the use of Keyhaven Salt Marsh

Meeting 2

• You will now meet with a new group, where you may be the only person from your old group.

• This time, you need to listen to everyone else’s views, give your own and then record how you agree with other groups, how you disagree with other groups and the key problems of future use the salt marsh.

Lesson Objective: Conflicts over the use of Keyhaven Salt Marsh

Finally…

• What are your personal opinions?• Record them in the last box.

Lesson Objective: Conflicts over the use of Keyhaven Salt Marsh

Feedback

• What was the outcome of your meetings? Who wants to use it in what way?

• How could we show these conflicts??

Lesson Objective: Conflicts over the use of Keyhaven Salt Marsh

Sailors

Fishermen

Spit Castle Owners

Fishermen

Conflict matrix

A conflict matrix shows the level of conflict between different users of an area.

Sailors

Fishermen

Spit Castle Owners

Fishermen

Conflict matrix

A conflict matrix shows the level of conflict between different users of an area.

KEY

Middle Conflict

Low Conflict

High Conflict

Lesson Objective: Conflicts over the use of Keyhaven Salt Marsh

Conservation and sustainable use of Keyhaven Salt Marsh

• How is it being conserved?It is now a designated ____of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and part of the ______is also a National Nature _______. As a result of these two designations the rich _______________ of plants and ________ are conserved.

animals biodiversity Reservemarsh Site

Lesson Objective: Conflicts over the use of Keyhaven Salt Marsh

Conservation and sustainable use of Keyhaven Salt Marsh

• How is it being used sustainably?– Car parking spaces have been designed along one side of

___________ Lane and the other has large boulders ___________car parking.

– Visitors to the Salt Marsh are advised by ______ boards how to look after the ____________ .

– The local council spent £5M on developing sea _______ to keep the marsh as it is, including maintaining the ____.

environment spit defences notice Saltgrass discouraging

Lesson Objective: Conflicts over the use of Keyhaven Salt Marsh

TASK

• You need to write an article for the Keyhaven Residents newsletter (Tidal Times) about the conflicts over the use of the salt marsh.

• You need to include;– Who is in conflict with who and why?– How it is both being conserved and used

sustainably. – What do you think is the best way forward for the

salt marsh?Lesson Objective: Conflicts over the use of Keyhaven Salt Marsh