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Green infrastructure

Planning authorities and developers have come to recognise the need for ”Green Infrastructure”, both for wildlife and for quiet recreation by new communities. The concept is gaining strong support in local authorities, Government Offices and Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The Wildlife Trust’s approach to Green Infrastructure is in seven stages:

• Identify, maintain and enhance essential existing areas of wildlife importance
• Map linkages between existing wildlife sites - providing corridors and new habitats for wildlife, and access for people
• Analyse the current use of green spaces by local people
• Predict use of current and proposed Green Infrastructure by the new communities
• Find ways to make important wildlife areas more robust and able to support more visitors without damaging wildlife e.g. boardwalks across sensitive wetlands, screens to avoid disturbance to wildfowl
• Where reserves cannot be modified without compromising wildlife aims, manage visitor access and movement across the sites
• Encourage more people to enjoy their local green spaces, and to appreciate and help conserve the wildlife with which they share them.