The decision to update our
current biodiversity strategy was taken to take account
of the biodiversity duty brought in by the Natural Environment and
Rural Communities Act as well as other changes that have taken
place since the 2004 strategy was written. The biodiversity duty
stipulates that:
"Every public authority must, in exercising
its functions, have regard, so far as is consistent with the proper
exercise of those functions, to the purpose of conserving
biodiversity"
The updated strategy links to the Sustainable
Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement by the national
indicator target for County Wildlife Sites (NI 197) and more
broadly to the Community Strategy and National Indicators by
the Cleaner Greener agenda and associated sections of these
documents.
The strategy currently consists of
the following documents:
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Appendix A - Vision Statement and Broad Approach
(52KB, 2 pages)
Appendix B - Specific Action to achieve the Vision and Broad Approach
(68KB, 6 pages)
Appendix C - Extraction of Specific Actions and Resource Implications
(1893KB, 32 pages)
Appendix D Consideration of external feedback on update of PCC Biodiversity Strategy
(106KB, 12 pages)