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The Partnership is always updating the habitat audits and species audit. Your comments and criticisms are essential! Please email them or fill out a form.

The London Biodiversity Audit consists of various audits and statements for London's key habitats and species. Action Plans have now been produced and common issues have been addressed generically.

You can find the introduction to the Audit below. There are also introductions on the Habitat Audit, Habitat Statement and Species Audit home pages. You can link to individual Audits and Statements here.

Introduction

Our Green Capital, the introduction to the London Biodiversity Action Plan, describes a new vision for London where biodiversity conservation is integrated with social, cultural and economic values. Although biodiversity planning is essentially a process, a local plan provides the mechanism for implementing the UK plan in London and is vital to the identification of priorities and delivery of action across the capital.

The London Biodiversity Partnership decided that a picture of the biodiversity resource in London was required as the first stage in this process, through an audit of the habitats and species that occur across the Capital. This London Biodiversity Audit (Volume 1 of the London Biodiversity Action Plan) will provide a framework for stimulating discussion that will result in the formulation of habitat, species or land use action plans at the London and borough levels. The Audit will evolve and be updated as a result of comments from Partners and others and the production of more accurate and detailed information.

There are fifteen habitat audits and four habitat statements for those habitats where information was scarce or not available. These Sections define the habitat, describe the resource in London and identify the major threats and opportunities for conservation - data sources are listed and the rationale and limitations of approach outlined.

The Species Audit identifies by borough species that fit into one or more of the following categories: UK Biodiversity Action Plan Priority; Species of Conservation Concern; nationally or locally rare; culturally valued; declining; easy to monitor or characteristic of certain habitats. This has been done for nine major groups. There is a searchable database of these species - comments and corrections are welcomed.

A suite of costed action plans for species and habitats, as well as functional action plans for target audiences, form The Action, Volume 2 of the London Biodiversity Action Plan.

Framework: Habitat and Land Use Classification for London
Relationship Between London Habitat and Land Use Classification and  UK Steering Group Habitat Types