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 WHAT
IS BIODIVERSITY?
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WHAT
IS A BIODIVERSITY AUDIT?
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BIODIVERSITY
IN THE UK
The UK Government
set up a BIODIVERSITY ACTION PLAN STEERING GROUP made up of multi-sector
representatives to produce lists of the most THREATENED AND DECLINING
BRITISH SPECIES AND HABITATS together with a range of costed targets for
their conservation. In parallel, six of the leading environmental charities
were working to stimulate the Government action and produced the first
edition of "Biodiversity Challenge - an agenda for conservation in
the UK" in December 1993.
In early 1994, the Government published "Biodiversity: the UK Action
Plan".
This was followed a year later by the enlarged section edition of "Biodiversity
Challenge" and in December 1995 the eagerly awaited "BIODIVERSITY:
THE UK STEERING GROUP REPORT" was published in two volumes.
In April 1997, official guidance on the production of LOCAL BIODIVERSITY
ACTION PLANS (BAPs) was produced by the UK Local Issues Advisory Group.
These guidance notes (1-4) are entitled 'An Introduction', Developing
Partnerships', 'How Local Biodiversity Action Plans relate to other Plans'
and 'Evaluating priorities and setting targets for habitats and species',
respectively.
The following tranches of species were produced in 1998:
Volume 1 - Vertebrates and Vascular Plants
Volume 2 - Habitats
Volume 3 - Plants and Fungi
Volume 4 - Invertebrates
Volume 5 - Maritime Species and habitats
Followed in October 1999 by:
Volume 6 - Terrestrial and Freshwater Species and Habitats
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