Launched in January 1999, the Durham Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP), which includes the Darlington area, is aimed at helping to deliver the action needed to both sustain and enhance biodiversity in the area.
The plan is an essential document to help all the partners involved in this process to co-ordinate their work. The local BAP looks at the national target species and habitats and identifies those that have special relevance in the local area.
In Darlington the countryside has a great deal of rich fertile land much of which is given over to intensive agriculture. Never the less, nestled between crops of wheat and barley can be found small pockets of woodland, wetland and scrub that supports our remaining wildlife and sheltered amongst the debris of urban dereliction are sites supporting a rich biodiversity that also need protecting and enhancing.