Tayside Local Biodiversity
Action Plan - "every action counts"
Biodiversity is a fairly new word to our language, but it is becoming more and more commonly used and understood. It simply encompasses:
"the whole variety of life, it is all living things, from the tiny garden to the giant redwood tree. You will find biodiversity everywhere, in window boxes and wild woods, roadsides and rain forests, snow field and seashore."
The UK Steering Group Report 1995
Tayside, which covers the three local authority areas of Angus, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross is an area rich in species and widely differing landscapes, for example:
- it covers 10% of the land mass of Scotland,
- it provides winter quarters for more than half of the world's population of pink-footed geese,
- it houses a third of Britains breeding population of ospreys,
- it has the largest reedbeds in Britain, and
- it boasts the oldest living tree in Europe - the Fortingall Yew, which is between 3,000 and 5,000 years old.
The Tayside Biodiversity Partnership is made up of statutory bodies, local authorities, non-government organisations and individuals.
The broad aim of the Tayside Local Biodiversity Action Plan is:
To co-ordinate the existing actions, as well as initiating and co-ordinating new actions, to conserve and enhance the regions biodiversity, taking into account both local and national priorities.
The most important word in the whole process is action. Without a concerted effort to conserve our local biodiversity nothing will be achieved. By highlighting a variety of species, projects and initiatives quickly follow and a very wide range of people can become involved biodiversity conservation.
Getting involved in the biodiversity process is often just a telephone call or e-mail away.
- View the Tayside Local Biodiversity Action Plan
- To find out more about biodiversity in Angus and Tayside visit www.taysidebiodiversity.co.uk
For more information contact:
Catherine Lloyd
Tayside biodiversity Co-ordinator
Tayside Biodiversity Partnership
c/o Dundee City Council
Floor 13
Tayside House
Dundee DD1 3RA
Tel 01382 433042
E-mail: tayside.biodiversity@ukf.net
Website: www.taysidebiodiversity.co.uk