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Habitat Action Plans
Acid Grassland
Canals
Chalk Grassland
Churchyards
Heathland
Parks & Green Spaces
Private Gardens
Reedbeds
Tidal Thames
Wasteland
Woodland

Species Action Plans
Bats
Black Poplar
Black Redstart
Grey Heron
House Sparrow
Mistletoe
Peregrine Falcon
Reptiles
Sand Martin
Stag Beetle
Tower Mustard
Water Vole

Statements
Exotic Flora
House Martin
Humble Bumble
Swifts

Generic actions
Generic action introduction
1. Site management
2. Habitat protection
3. Species protection
4. Ecological Monitoring
5. Biological recording
6. Communications
7. Funding
8. Built Structures
 
Private Gardens
action plan

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Aims
1. To highlight and protect the overall resource for wildlife provided by private gardens in London.
2. To improve individual private gardens as habitat for a range of local wildlife.

Private Gardens quote

For the purposes of this action plan, private gardens are defined as the private open space surrounding residential dwellings where the householders have sole responsibility for management.

Private gardens form an important part of London's landscape. For many people these are the places where they have most frequent contact with nature.

They are probably the most varied areas of green space in the Capital, ranging in size from the tiny 'pocket handkerchief' backyard in the central London boroughs, to the elaborate landscaped parkland of London's mansions. Garden ponds support amphibians and dragonflies. Dense undergrowth provides good breeding sites for small birds, many of which have suffered significant declines in the countryside. Hedgehogs, bats, butterflies are frequently associated with this habitat. Larger gardens and gardens adjoining areas of semi-natural habitat, may help support grass snakes, badgers and birds such as woodpeckers.

Contact
The Lead for this habitat is the London Wildlife Trust.
Moya O'hara
London Wildlife Trust
Centre for Wildlife Gardening
28 Marsden Road
London SE15 4EE

Tel: 020 7252 9186
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/london

Photo © Sandy Bain


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