Priority BAP Habitats
Lead partners:
- UK BAP priority habitats: Leicestershire County Council (Environmental Resources Centre)
- Local BAP habitats: Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust
UK BAP priority habitats
Aims:
Create and maintain inventories of UK BAP priority habitats listed in the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Biodiversity Action Plan
Report on changes in condition and extent of UK BAP priority habitats through the UK BAP reporting system
Report on status of UK BAP priority habitat associated with Local Wildlife Sites as part of statutory responsibilities
Promote management, restoration and creation of UK BAP priority habitat through the planning system
Habitats of national importance:
- Broadleaved woodland
- Calcareous grassland
- Eutrophic standing water
- Field margins
- Heath-grassland
- Hedgerows
- Lowland wood-pasture and parkland
- Mesotrophic lakes
- Neutral grassland
- Reedbed
- Wet woodland
Local BAP habitats
Aims:
Promote management, restoration and creation of local priority habitats
Habitats of local importance:
- Fast-flowing streams
- Floodplain wetland
- Mature trees
- Roadside verges
- Rocks and built structures
- Sphagnum ponds
- Springs and flushes
- Urban habitat - Leicester
Click here to download further information on Habitat Action Plans and objectives.
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Braunstone Wildlife Watch Group - All Aboard the Minibus!
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