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The Dorset Biodiversity Strategy
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The ambitious Dorset Biodiversity Strategy, launched on 16th May 2003, has far-reaching consequences for hundreds of people beyond the field of nature conservation.
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Taking a revolutionary new approach, the Dorset strategy centres on 4 main issues, called topics, and 3 common themes affecting biodiversity, tying them into the concept of sustainable development.
Topics
Forestry and woodland management
Agriculture
Freshwater management
Coastal and marine issues
Common themes
Land-use planning
Data and monitoring
Raising awareness and involvement
Thus biodiversity is seen to be the responsibility, not just of conservationists, but of local authorities, landowners, businesses, community groups and individuals across the county.
The strategy is Dorset’s response to the governments UK Biodiversity Action Plan. It is one of a network of regional and local plans delivering the objectives of the national plan; namely to conserve, restore and recreate biodiversity.
Prioritising action in Dorset
Although the strategy approaches action for biodiversity through Topic
Action Plans and Common Themes, it also promotes action at the habitat
level, as most species are catered for by this approach. Click on the
menu below for more information on some of Dorset’s most important
habitats for biodiversity.
ANDREW POLLARD
Biodiversity Officer