Tees Valley Biodiversity Partnership

Welcome to the website of the Tees Valley Biodiversity partnership and home to the Tees Valley Action Plan (BAP).

The Tees Valley Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) is a plan of action for threatened or characteristic habitats and species in our area. It is carried out by the Tees Valley Biodiversity Partnership, which is a partnership of local organisations and people working together to benefit our wildlife. From here, you can find out about biodiversity in the Tees Valley: what it is; why it’s important and what’s being done to help conserve species and habitats in the area.

There are lots of great wildlife projects happening, plus opportunities to get involved. There are sections with information and ways to get involved for everyone, whether you are conservation professional, community group, schools, business, farmer, angler, gardener or simply a local resident with an interest in the wealth of wildlife in the Tees Valley.

This is a new website. Please let us know what you think. The site will develop over time so if there is anything you need that you can’t locate, visit the contacts page and let us know.

Site map

• Biodiversity basics
  • North East regional biodiversity
  • UK Biodiversity Action Plan
  • What are local BAPS?
  • What is biodiversity?
  • Why is biodiversity important?
• Contact us
• Get involved
  • Biodiversity partner
  • Business/industry
    • Brownfield sites can be rich in wildlife
    • Ten ways to help biodiversity at the workplace
    • Useful contacts and sources of information
  • Community group/residents association
  • Family
  • Farmer/landowner
    • Conservation of hedgerows
      • Sources of information and advice on hedgerow law
      • Tees Valley hedgerows
      • The Tees Valley Hedgerow Partnership
    • Sources of biodiversity information
    • Ten ways to help biodiversity on the farm
    • The Tees Valley Farmland Bird Survey
  • Gardener
    • 10 ideas for bringing biodiversity
    • Resources and surveys on wildlife gardening
    • Six ways to garden more sustainably
  • Individuals
    • Become a conservation volunteer
    • Support your local green space
  • Local authority
    • How the Tees Valley Biodiversity partnership is assisting
    • How to integrate biodiversity into authority’s services activities
    • Resources and sources of information
  • Planner/Developer
    • Planning for biodiversity
    • Planning Policy Statement 9
    • Wildlife protection legislation
  • School/college/youth group
    • Developing your school grounds for wildlife
    • Eco-Schools
    • Environmental Youth Projects
    • Local venues for environmental educational visits
    • Sustainable Schools programme
    • The Tees Valley Habitat Action Plan for school grounds
  • Wildlife recorder
    • Amphibians and reptiles
    • Birds
    • Butterflies and moths
    • Getting started
    • Mammal recording
    • Trees, hedgerows and flowers
• Library
  • National publications and websites
  • Natural environment of the Tees Valley
  • Regional publications and websites
  • Tees Valley Biodiversity Partnership meeting minutes and papers
• Local sites
  • Local Geological sites (RIGS)
  • Local Indicator 197
• Pondscape
  • Aims of pondscape
  • Invasive Species
  • Launch
    • Launch Photos
  • Pond websites and information
  • Ponds Habitat Action Plan
  • Pondscape database and surveys
  • Pondscape news
  • Pondscape partnership
  • Pondscape publications
  • Volunteers
• Tees Valley Biodiversity Action Plan
  • Biodiversity Action Groups
    • Rural Action Group
    • Urban Action Group
    • Wetlands and Coastal Action Group
  • Biodiversity partner organisations
  • Local Wildlife Sites
  • Monitoring and recording biodiversity
  • Partners
  • Priority habitats and species in the Tees Valley
    • Tees Valley priority habitats
      • Arable field margins
      • Brownfields
      • Cemeteries and churchyards
      • Gardens and allotments
      • Grazing marsh
      • Hedgerows
      • Lowland heath
      • Lowland meadows
      • Maritime cliffs and slopes
      • Marsh and swamp
      • Mudflats and saltmarsh
      • Parks and amenity grassland
      • Ponds
      • Reedbeds
      • Rivers and streams
      • Roadside verges
      • Saline lagoons
      • Saltmarsh
      • Sand dunes
      • School grounds
      • Semi-natural broadleaved woodland
    • Tees Valley priority species
      • Barn owl
      • Bats
      • Brown hare
      • Common seal
      • Corn bunting
      • Dingy skipper
      • Globeflower
      • Grayling
      • Great crested newt
      • Grey partridge
      • Harvest mouse
      • Purple milk vetch
      • Ringed plover
      • Tree sparrow
      • Water vole
  • Steering group
  • Tees Valley biodiversity partnership
  • Wildlife of the Tees Valley area
• Welcome