About
the LBAP
The Partnership's
Vision for Avon.
A landscape rich in wildlife, where species and habitats are part of healthy,
functioning ecosystems that are well-managed and valued by everyone;where
conservation of biodiversity is integrated with social, cultural and economic
activities.
The Avon Biodiversity Action Plan is the over-arching conservation strategy
for Avon*. It is aimed at all those organisations, groups and individuals
wishing to improve biodiversity in the area, but particularly at partnership
and potential new partnership members. The Avon BAP is the result of extensive
involvement by a wide range of local experts and organisations, ensuring
that it is as comprehensive, accurate, forward thinking and widely supported
as possible.
*The former county of Avon, here simply referred to as Avon, encompasses
the four unitary authority areas of Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol
City, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
The main aims of the Avon Biodiversity Plan are to:
- Focus action on habitats and species that are of particular value
in Avon, within the national context
- Encourage a common approach to biodiversity conservation and sharing
of best practice in Avon
- Encourage education and community action as an integral part of
the biodiversity process
The Avon Biodiversity Partnership brings together a wide range of statutory
and non-statutory bodies. New partners are both welcomed and needed,
especially from the business, academic and private sectors. The Avon
Biodiversity Partnership will:
- Drive implementation of the Avon Biodiversity Action Plan, pursuing,
influencing and communicating biodiversity objectives in the area
consistently
- Champion and promote local biodiversity and its distintiveness
- Monitor biodiversity and biodiversity action
Local
partnerships
The Avon Biodiversity Partnership members are:
- Avon Gorge & Downs Project (AG&D)
- Avon Reptile and Amphibian Group (ARAG)
- Avon Valleys Partnership (AVP)
- Avon Wildlife Trust (AWT) *
- Bath and North East Somerset Council (B&NES)*
- Bristol City Council (BCC)*
- Bristol Living Rivers Project (BLR)
- Bristol Museum & Art Galleries
- Bristol Naturalists’ Society (BNS)
- Bristol Ornithological Club (BOC)
- Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre (BRERC)*
- Bristol Water (BW)
- British Waterways (BWW)
- Bristol Zoo Gardens
- British Association of Shooting and Conservation (BASC)
- BTCV (formerly British Trust for Conservation Volunteers)
- British Trust for Ornithology (Avon: BTO)
- Cotswolds AONB Partnership (CAONBP)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)*
- The Duchy of Cornwall
- English Nature (EN)*
- Environment Agency (EA)*
- Forest of Avon (FoA)
- Forestry Commission (FC)
- Forest Enterprise (FE)
- Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG)
- Hawk and Owl Trust (HOT)
- HM Prison Service (HMPS)
- Joint Strategic Planning and Transportation Unit (JSPTU)*
- Mendip Hills AONB (MHAONB)
- National Trust (NT)
- North Somerset Council (NSC)*
- North Somerset Levels and Moors Project (NSLMP)
- South Gloucestershire Council (SGC)*
- Wessex Water (WW)
* Steering group members
Habitat
Action Plan list
Species-rich
grassland and heath
Hedgerows
Arable
farmland
Purple
moor grass and rush pastures
Woodland
Wood
pasture, parkland and veteran trees
Standing
open water
Reedbeds
and sedgebeds
Watercourses
and floodplain
Coastal
and floodplain grazing marsh
Estuary
Species
Action Plan List
Dormouse
Water vole
SAPs will also be developed for: ; white-clawed crayfish; bat species;
otter; great crested newt.
The Partnership has identified
10 cross-cutting themes that are addressed in the BAP:
- Farming and private ownership
- Development and planning
- Water and wetlands
- Other environmental interests
- Invasive and non-native species
- Information and data
- Landscape-scale conservation
- Communications
- Recreational activity
- Funding
Contact
Jenny Hayward, Avon Biodiversity Partnership Co-ordinator
c/o Avon Wildlife Trust
32 Jacobs Wells Road
Bristol
BS8 1DR
0117 917 7270
jennyhayward@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk
www.avon-biodiversity.org.uk
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