Every three years, all public bodies in Scotland report to the Scottish Government on how they’re meeting the legal requirement to further the conservation of biodiversity. Our report sets out how we’ve looked after our valuable natural environment and worked with partner organisations to improve our green and blue spaces for nature.
Examples of the type of work include:
- policy work to incorporate the natural environment in the Edinburgh Adapts climate change programme
- site management changes across Council-owned parks to increase natural areas and meadows
- community projects such as food growing projects, which have wider health and social benefits as well as increasing biodiversity
- education, communication and professional in-house training are other related activities to highlight the importance of protecting and improving biodiversity.
Working with the Edinburgh Biodiversity Partnership, the Council also supports work to look after some of our rarer species and habitats.
The report and the Edinburgh Biodiversity Action Plan 2016-18 are also available on our website.
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