Tees Valley Biodiversity Action Plan
The Tees Valley is a vibrant place to live and work. Conserving and enhancing our natural wealth of wildlife resources is vital if we are to retain our quality of life and future economic prosperity.
Biodiversity conservation is not only about those habitats found on nature reserves, which is rare. It is concerned with the whole range of habitats, both urban and rural, which make our world a diverse and a varied place to live.
The Tees Valley Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) covers the county formerly known as Cleveland that are now Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland.
The Tees Valley BAP is our response to the national biodiversity planning process. The Tees Valley BAP was produced in 1999 and consists of a series of Species and Habitat Action Plans setting out the current status, targets for protection and enhancement plus the actions to be taken by each partner organisation.
This document takes the objectives and targets of the UK Biodiversity Action Plan and translates and amplifies them into a Tees Valley context. Focusing on the most significant elements of the Tees Valley’s environment, it sets out the actions needed to achieve those objectives and targets.
Biodiversity Action Plans are living documents, regularly reviewed and updated, with targets changed and new ones added in response to the reality of changing conditions on the ground.
