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Why an Action
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Selsey Biodiversity
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Coastal Vegetated
Shingle
Hedgerows
Reed Beds and
Saline Lagoons
Trees,Woodland
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Road Verges
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Rifes and Ditches
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SELSEY ACTION FOR WILDLIFE


A Local Biodiversity Action Plan
For Selsey Parish

tel.01243 607104


Why a Biodiversity Action Plan for the Parish?

Biodiversity, which can be defined as the variety of living things, is recognised as an important indicator of the health of our natural environment. We, along with all other species, ultimately depend on this environment for our survival. However, in less dramatic terms, a rich natural environment improves the quality of our day to day lives. Just looking out on trees from an office window, hearing skylarks up above or watching birds at the bird table can make us feel better, about ourselves and our lives. It perhaps reconnects us with our natural inheritance - a touchstone to our past.

Sustaining biodiversity and passing on to future generations an environment at least as rich as the one we inherited has been recognised internationally. National action plans for habitats and species have been produced and Sussex HAPs [Habitat Action Plans] and SAPs [Species Action Plans] are being developed. However it is very unlikely that the ambitious targets set out in these plans will be met without the support of local communities, especially where land is undesignated for its wildlife value. If local people don't value the biodiversity they have or fail to encourage this feeling in the young, the plans will remain paper visions.

This need for involving and enthusing local people is clearly recognised in Chichester District Council's LBAP [Local Biodiversity Action Plan], 'A Wealth of Wildlife'. The development of the Selsey Habitat Survey into a biodiversity action plan, with the view to using it as a pilot for other parishes, is one of the actions for wildlife highlighted in the plan.

This parish plan is needed in order to translate Sussex actions into parish actions, which involve local people and reflect their views, as well as the essential character of Selsey.


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or email ssavill@lineone.net
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