Breathing life in to the Wokingham Borough
Great crested newts, barn owls and sand martins are some of the endangered species that have become buoyant in the Wokingham Borough over the last five years according to a new report outlining the progress of the borough’s biodiversity.
The Wokingham Biodiversity Forum reviewed the borough’s 10-year plan to help the natural environment thrive this week, and found that as it reaches its half way point more than 87 per cent of targets have been completed or are on their way to completion.
The forum will be appraising the borough’s Biodiversity Action Plan later this month as it approaches the five-year mark. The plan was launched by Wokingham Borough Council in 2003 to protect and preserve wildlife, trees and the natural environment after the community, wildlife experts, nature lovers and local representatives of statutory agencies told the council what areas they thought needed a helping hand.
The plan includes 69 different targets to be completed by 2012 ranging from promoting natural habitats to the community to increasing membership of the Biodiversity Forum, to encouraging wildlife friendly gardening in the borough, to designating new nature reserves and planting new native trees. The report shows that 40 targets have been completed, 20 are either on-going targets are under way and nine are yet to be started.
The Wokingham Biodiversity Forum reviewed the borough’s 10-year plan to help the natural environment thrive this week, and found that as it reaches its half way point more than 87 per cent of targets have been completed or are on their way to completion.
The forum will be appraising the borough’s Biodiversity Action Plan later this month as it approaches the five-year mark. The plan was launched by Wokingham Borough Council in 2003 to protect and preserve wildlife, trees and the natural environment after the community, wildlife experts, nature lovers and local representatives of statutory agencies told the council what areas they thought needed a helping hand.
The plan includes 69 different targets to be completed by 2012 ranging from promoting natural habitats to the community to increasing membership of the Biodiversity Forum, to encouraging wildlife friendly gardening in the borough, to designating new nature reserves and planting new native trees. The report shows that 40 targets have been completed, 20 are either on-going targets are under way and nine are yet to be started.
Wokingham Borough Council
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