East of England Biodiversity Forum

LOCAL BAPS

Underpinning the
Regional Plan are a wide variety of LBAPs. To view links to LBAPs click here >

HABITAT TARGETS

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the latest targets
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NEWS

NEWS

	Refined biodiversity opportunity map

	New habitat targets

	Species target development

	2010 Year of Biodiversity

	Newsletter Oct-'10-Jan-'11 (PDF 520Kb)

	Newsletter Jul-Sep 2010 (PDF 660Kb)

	Newsletter Apr-Jun 2010 (doc 4.2mb)

2011 to 2020 is the International Decade on Biodiversity and EEBF has signed up to be a partner.
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ARCHIVE CONTENTS

Glossary/Acronyms

Delivery Plan Action Tables

In this section of the site you will find a useful glossary, the action plans for each of the six delivery plan challenges, an archive of Forum minutes, a library of useful reports and literature, plus case studies, reports on projects and a cache of old website pages for reference purposes.

Glossary/Acronyms

AONB

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

EH	English Heritage

EIA	Environmental Impact Assessment

ERPHO	Eastern Region Public Health Observatory

FC	Forestry Commission

FWAG	Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group

GI	Green infrastructure

GO-East	Government Office for the East of England

GSE	Green Space East

HAP	Habitat Action Plan

HLS	Higher Level Stewardship

JNCC	Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Landscape-scale	A ‘big-country’ approach to the creation of GI assets.

LAs	Local Authorities

LBAPs	Underpinning regional BAPs are more local plans, known as Local Biodiversity Action Plans (LBAPs). These plans represent the policy backdrop to enable county-level and local organisations to direct action to the habitats and species that are threatened and need most help in the UK. At the local level, biodiversity partnerships have developed their own biodiversity action plans setting out what is needed to deliver both national and local priorities. To date hundreds of LBAPs have been adopted in the East of England. This acronym is also used to refer to Local Biodiversity Action Plan Partnerships.

LDF	Local Development Framework

LDU	Landscape Description Units. The original 'Opportunity' map was based on level 1 building blocks that equate to a 1: 250,000 scale. The new refined map exploits a level 2 building block to a scale of 1: 50,000

LDVs	Local Delivery Vehicles

LRCs	Local Records Centres

LSPs	Local Strategic Partnerships

Maintain habitat:	Ensure there is no loss in current habitat resource or quality, and that the physical processes required to maintain the habitats are operating.

MCS	Marine Conservation Society

MFA	Marine and Fisheries Agency

MMO	Marine Management Organisation

MPA	Marine Protected Areas

NBIS	Norfolk Biological Information Services

NBN	National Biodiversity Network

‘Networking nature’	The harnessing of local conservation activity to exploit functional linkages to create a more strategic interconnected landscape.

NE	Natural England

NFU	National Farmers Union

NGOs	Non-governmental organisations, including Buglife, Froglife, Plantlife, The Wildlife Trusts, NT, RSPB, WT

NHS	National Health Service

NI 197	National Indicator on Local Wildlife Sites

NNR	National Nature Reserve

NT	National Trust

Ofwat	Office of Water Services

PCT	Primary Care Trust

PR09	Periodic Review 2009

RBMP	River Basin Management Plans

Restore habitat:	Restoration of those area of a habitat that are deemed degraded in quality to return them to good condition, through positive management and/r cessation of damaging processes.

ROWIP	Rights of Way Improvement Plan

RSPB	Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

RSS	Regional Spatial Strategy

RWS	Regional Woodland Strategy

SAP	Species Action Plan

SEA	Strategic Environmental Assessment

SMP	Shoreline Management Plan

SSSI	Site of Special Scientific Interest

SUDS	Sustainable Urban Drainage Schemes

WT	Woodland Trust

ANGSt

Access to Natural Greenspace Standards

BAP:

Biodiversity Action Plan. In 1994 the UK launched its Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) as the first formal step towards implementation of CBD. In 2002 the England Biodiversity Strategy duly followed. Now the UK BAP comprises Species Action Plans (SAP’s) and Habitat Action Plans (HAP’s), all aimed at conserving and enhancing our most threatened biodiversity.

BBC

British Broadcasting Corporation

Butterfly Conservation

BERR

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Biodiversity:

The sheer variety of life forms, encompassing all flora, fauna and even micro-organisms. Biodiversity is found in all parts of the environment - both rural and urban. From parks, community greenspaces and Local Nature Reserves to large-scale land and seascapes. Biodiversity provides us with a vital and vigorous resource from which we can all benefit.

It has been alleged that biodiversity is much less rich than 50 years ago and remains under pressure from a wide range of threats – from local intensification of pressures on land, to global climate change.
Biological Diversity: Following the UN’s Earth Summit in 1992 the UK, along with another 150 other signatories, ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This was the world’s first treaty providing a legal framework for biodiversity conservation.

BTCV

British Trust for Conservation Volunteers

BTO

British Trust for Ornithology

BWEA

British Wind Energy Association

CAMS

Catchment Abstraction Management Strategies

CBD

Convention on Biological Diversity

CEFAS

Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science

CHaMPS

Coastal Habitat Management Plan prepared forSAC/SPA/
RAMSARsites to quantify predicted habitat changes and recommend preventative/offsetting measures

CLA

Country Land and Business Association

Coastal squeeze

The situation when valuable salt marsh and mudflat habitats, with their associated species, are squeezed between rising sea levels and man-made defences, resulting in the gradual loss of these habitats, as they are unable to migrate landward in response to the changing sea levels.

Create habitat:

Increase area of the habitat beyond its current extent. This includes the creation of lost habitat in areas where it formerly occurred. Wherever possible, habitat expansion should aim to link or extend existing areas of that particular habitat type.

CWS/Local Wildlife Sites

County Wildlife Sites

Defra

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Environment Agency

Ecosystems

The interlocking nature of biodiversity along with land and soil, water and air. In effect the quality of biodiversity, both in terms of species and their habitats, determines the health of the natural world’s ecosystems.

An ecosystem’s strength is important, as robust systems deliver more services. For instance, flood attenuation occurs naturally in the floodplains where river systems have remained untouched. Thus protection of biodiversity aids the overall resilience of ecosystems, which duly offer more protection to society.

Ecosystem services:

This refers to qualitative functions of natural non-produced assets of land, water and air (including related ecosystems) and their biota. There are three basic types of environmental services:
(a) disposal services, which reflect the functions of the natural environment as an absorptive sink for residuals,
(b) productive services, which arise from the economic advantages derived through natural resource inputs and space for production and consumption, and
(c) consumer or consumption services which provide for physiological as well as recreational and related needs of human beings

EEBF

East of England Biodiversity Forum

EEDA

East of England Development Agency

EELF

East of England Landscape Forum

EELGA

East of England Local Government Association

Delivery Plan Action Tables

Challenge 1 - Click here to view action plan pdf

Challenge 2 - Click here to view action plan pdf

Challenge 3 - Click here to view action plan pdf