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City of Edinburgh Council

The Edinburgh Biodiversity Action Plan
2000 - 2004

Foreword by David Bellamy

Introduction

The Edinburgh Biodiversity Action Plan is a new and far-reaching initiative to conserve and enhance the Capital’s natural heritage. It is part of a global movement to safeguard the biodiversity of our planet. The term "biodiversity" encapsulates all that we mean by the health of our natural environment and, ultimately, the quality of our lives. To this end, the Action Plan puts forward an ambitious programme of carefully targeted actions to enrich the living habitats of Edinburgh and address the welfare of key plant and animal species. However, we are all responsible for the health and wealth of our surroundings. The Edinburgh Biodiversity Action Plan challenges us all to contribute to conserving biodiversity in whatever way we can.



Background

A New Approach to Conservation

What is Biodiversity?

Why A Biodiversity Action Plan?

Why Conserve Biodiversity?

Volcanoes & Ice: The Influence of Geology on Edinburgh’s Biodiversity

The Natural Environment of Edinburgh

Edinburgh’s Biodiversity Action Plan

Species Action Plans

Habitat Action Plans

Plan Implementation

Plan Monitoring

Additional Plans

What can you do to help?

10 ways to promote Biodiversity

How to get involved

The Habitat & Species Plans

The 12 Habitat Actions Plans

Woodland Union Canal Farmland
Rivers and Burns Urban Habitats Heather Moorland
Lochs and Ponds Rock Faces Coastal and Marine
Mires; Bogs and Fens Semi-natural Grassland Wildlife Corridor

The 97 Species Action Plans

Mammals

Water vole Hedgehog Brown hare
Mountain hare Otter Badger
Harvest mouse Weasel Daubenton's bat
Water shrew Pipistrelle bats  


Birds

Sparrowhawk Skylark Kingfisher
Swift Bittern Knot
Linnet Great spotted woodpecker Yellowhammer
Reed bunting Spotted fly-catcher Tree sparrow
Grey partridge Great crested grebe Bullfinch
Sand martin Roseate tern Common tern
Black grouse Song thrush Barn owl
Lapwing    


Reptiles, Amphibians & Fish

Adder Common toad Great crested newt
River lamprey Atlantic salmon Brown trout


Invertebrates

Jumping spider Click beetle sp. Small pearl-bordered Fritillary
Plume moth sp. Blind white snail Hieroglyphic ladybird
Planthopper sp. Dung beetle sp. Micromoth sp.
Leafhopper sp. Micromoth sp. Flea beetle sp.
Hoverfly sp. Wolf spider sp. Common blue butterfly
Henbane flea beetle Large red damselfly Drosophilid-fly sp.
Ant sp. Cranefly sp. Cylindrical whorl snail
Six spot burnet moth    


Trees, Shrubs & Flowering Plants

Juniper Rock whitebeam Quaking grass
Sea rocket Giant bellflower Cornflower
Common centaury Maiden pink Petty whin
Autumn gentian Meadow crane's-bill Heath cudweed
Rock-rose Bluebell Ragged robin
Sticky catchfly Tufted Loosestrife Bogbean
Wood millet Spring sandwort Flat-stalked pondweed
Floating water-crowfoot Northern yellow-cress Green figwort
Hairy stonecrop Cranberry Mountain Pansy
Eelgrass    


Ferns & Lower Plants

Adder's tongue Pillwort Sieve-tooth Moss
"The Ballet Dancer" Porcelain fungus Golden Sock
Channelled Crystalwort Magellanic Bog Moss


Acknowledgements

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