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BIODIVERSITY 3.5 Biodiversity 42 DERRY CITY AND STRABANE DISTRICT COUNCIL
Biodiversity 3.5 3.5 Biodiversity Biodiversity provides a range of environmental, social and economic benefits that people derive from nature, which are referred to as ecosystem services (Figure 3.2) (essential natural services for our survival) to include: • Provisioning services are the products obtained from ecosystems to include food, fresh water, clean air, energy, fibre and medicines. • Regulating services are the benefits derived from the regulation of ecosystem processes, for example, climate regulation, natural hazard regulation, water purification, waste management and pollination. • Habitat services highlight the importance of ecosystems that provide habitats for wildlife. • Cultural services include non-material benefits that people obtain from ecosystems, which are crucial for our well-being to include recreational resources and aesthetic value. The District has 41 international, national and local designated sites (refer to Appendix 2), with two Ramsar sites, one Special Protection Area (SPA), five Special Areas of Conservation (SAC), 25 Areas of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI), three National Nature Reserves (NNR), one Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and four Local Nature Reserves (LNR) (Appendix 2 and Figure 3.10). This biodiversity enriches the district and offers a range of benefits, including important habitats, air quality regulation, food, recreational provision, health improvements, flood risk reduction and community cohesion. However, biodiversity is threatened by many factors, including habitat loss, pollution, climate change and invasive alien species. The loss of biodiversity affects these essential ecosystem services and their decline threatens a good quality of life. The UK signed the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992, to halt the loss of biodiversity. Subsequently, the UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) was published in 1994 (Department of Environment, 1994), with the adoption of the regional Northern Ireland Biodiversity Strategy in 2002. The UK BAP proposed that Local Biodiversity Action Plans (LBAP) should be prepared to implement the UK BAP at a local level. Therefore, Council established the Foyle Biodiversity Partnership in 2007, a local partnership of government departments and non-government organisations, to produce the first Derry and Strabane LBAP 2008 – 2013 (Derry City Council, 2012). Since the publication of the first LBAP for the district, there has been several legislation and policy changes relevant to biodiversity. The Wildlife and Natural Environment (NI) Act 2011 introduced a new statutory duty upon: ‘every public body, in exercising any functions, to further the conservation of biodiversity so far as is consistent with the proper exercise of those functions’. The Local Government Act (NI) 2014 introduced the creation of a Community Plan by local authorities to improve the long-term social, economic and environmental well-being of the district. Therefore, Council aims to progress towards developing a holistic ecological functioning landscape (green infrastructure). The GI Plan will prioritise actions to secure the future of the district’s biodiversity, incorporate GI into the LDP and will assist with the delivery of key actions within the Community Plan (Derry City and Strabane District Council, 2017). Outlined below are the main global threats to biodiversity: • Habitat loss and fragmentation • Invasive alien species • Climate change • Pollution. DRAFT GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN 2019 - 2032 // PART ONE 43
Page 1 and 2: Derry City and Strabane District Co
Page 3 and 4: CONTENTS Executive Summary 1. Intro
Page 5 and 6: Executive Summary This is Derry Cit
Page 7 and 8: Introduction 01 1.1.5 The Green Inf
Page 9 and 10: Introduction 01 1.1.6 How the plan
Page 11 and 12: 1.3 Assets, functions & benefits of
Page 13 and 14: Introduction 01 GI can provide seve
Page 15 and 16: Introduction 01 1.4.2 Policies •
Page 17 and 18: Introduction 01 DRAFT GREEN INFRAST
Page 19 and 20: 02 The Green Infrastructure Themes
Page 21 and 22: 03 02 Green Infrastructure Themes 3
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Page 25 and 26: People & Place 3.3 3.3 People and P
Page 27 and 28: People & Place 3.3 3.3.2 Play Play
Page 29 and 30: People & Place 3.3 Figure 3.6 - A m
Page 31 and 32: People & Place 3.3 DRAFT GREEN INFR
Page 33 and 34: Economic Prosperity 3.4 3.4 Economi
Page 35 and 36: Economic Prosperity 3.4 3.4.2 Touri
Page 37 and 38: Economic Prosperity 3.4 3.4.4 Skill
Page 39: Economic Prosperity 3.4 DRAFT GREEN
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Page 49 and 50: Climate Change 3.6 3.6 Climate Chan
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Page 53 and 54: Climate Change 3.6 GREEN INFRASTRUC
Page 55 and 56: Climate Change 3.6 DRAFT GREEN INFR
Page 57 and 58: Implementation 04 4.2 Funding Fundi
Page 59 and 60: REFERENCES ASC. 2016. UK Climate Ch
Page 61 and 62: REFERENCES Northern Ireland Executi
Page 63 and 64: APPENDIX 2 International, National,
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Page 67 and 68: APPENDIX 3 SWOT Analysis AREA STREN
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