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Biodiversity
What is Biffa’s Approach to Biodiversity?
We have decided to take a Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) approach to managing our corporate biodiversity issues. A company BAP is widely recognised as an effective business tool for managing corporate biodiversity issues. The Biffa BAP will act as a formal system used by Biffa to manage our overall impacts on biodiversity.
We surveyed all of our locations between 2001 and 2004 and from this information have selected priority habitats and species for conservation action, to produce its Biodiversity Action Plan. The priorities were habitats or species that occur on Biffa land which:
- Are a species or habitat listed in the UK BAP; and/or
- Are included in a Local BAP.
At present we have identified 11 key habitats and 8 key species where Biffa could make a significant contribution to National and Local BAP targets. The 11 habitats that have been selected for Habitat Action Plans at this stage of the Biffa Biodiversity Action Plan are:
- Broadleaf Woodland
- Eutrophic Standing Water
- Scrub
- Standing Open Water
- Lowland Meadows
- Running Water
- Purple Moor Grass – Rush Pasture
- Improved Grasslands
- Ancient Hedgerows
- Built up Areas and Gardens
- Marsh & Swamps
Our key habitats and species are controlled through the use of site level Biodiversity management plans that detail how each site will be operated to enhance specific habitats which should lead to encouraging specific species.
