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The Steel Valley Project - the potential to enhance the level of biodiversity in Stocksbridge Biodiversity
is an important factor in enhancing sustainability
The
local sites of scientific interest The
Steel Valley Project (SVP) team has become more
involved in habitat management and creation in
recent years. This reflects the growing alarm in
Britain about the decrease in biodiversity in the
countryside as well as urban areas. Nationally we
have been fairly good about identifying and
preserving the best of our remaining natural
habitats - identifying them as islands of land to
be conserved and from which development has been
excluded. However, until recently the role played
by the rest of the countryside and the unbuilt land
within cities in supporting biodiversity has been
ignored. In
Stocksbridge the Steel Valley Project team have
been trying to redress this imbalance by
identifying the potential to enhance biodiversity.
They have been working on the countryside and more
recently in the built-up area to develop ideas,
approaches and schemes, which should eventually
mean that a more sustainable local environment
develops to support biodiversity, as well as
people's needs. There
are several sites of local and regional value for
their scientific interest as shown in this diagram
- click for details about local natural
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