Resources

Documents to download on biodiversity topics

Worcestershire Biodiversity Partnership publications

• Our 2009-10 annual Partnership report  (737KB)  looks at the Partnerships achievements in beginning the development of a landscape-scale strategy for the delivery of BAP targets.
• Our latest Partnership newsletter, Action for Wildlife in Worcestershire
    (680KB), was published in July 2010.
• Our 2008-09 Partnership report  (3.8MB) looks at some of our nature conservation successes during the year, focusing on a selection of projects undertaken by partners.
• Many of the Biodiversity Action Plan webpages on this site have a small library of documents and links specific to the habitat or species in question.

Worcestershire Biodiversity Partnership - annual meeting presentations

2010 documents

• The Local Opportunity Maps: a landscape-scale approach to delivering our biodiversity priorities  (403KB) Colin Raven, Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
• The Worcestershire Local Sites Partnership and reporting on National Indicator 197  (4.4MB) Helen Woodman, Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
• Environmental Stewardship and renewable energy on Longdon Marsh
  (2.8MB) Jeni Pring, Gloucestershire Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group
• Pastoral landscape project areas  (950KB) Becky Lashley, Worcestershire Biodiversity Partnership
• The Bow Brook catchment  (331KB) David Dench, Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
• Wyre Forest acid grasslands and heaths  (716KB) Alison Hitching, Worcestershire Biodiversity Partnership

2009 documents

• Biodiversity Data in the Malvern Hills AONB  (1.4MB) Paul Esrich, Malvern Hills AONB Partnership
• The role of a Heritage Champion - promoting biodiversity from within
  (1.9MB) Adrian Darby, Wychavon District Council
• State of the natural environment - the importance of partnership working
  (2.7MB) Ciaran Gannon, Natural England

Wildlife factsheets

• A series of factsheets has been produced on the habitats and species within the Worcestershire Biodiversity Action Plan.

Other publications

• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (the TEEB project) released its final report in October 2010. A Bank of Natural Capital website has also been launched to communicate the messages about recognising the economic impacts of biodiversity loss.
• The 3rd Wildlife and Countryside Link report  (140KB) into progress towards the Countdown 2010 commitments.
• The Vision Mapping Project Leaflet  (1.8MB) produced following this 2-year Biodiversity Partnership project.