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Annual Report 2002 – 2003 Introduction to the Partnership London Biodiversity Partnership Annual Report 2002 – 2003 Introduction to the Partnership © James Farrell The London Biodiversity Milestones 1996 Partnership is a group of Partnership launched. Chair’s Foreword public, private and Capital Assets published. voluntary organisations working together for Milestones 1999 I am pleased to present work being used in wildlife and people. It was Appointment of the first the Partnership’s second national best practice – formed in 1996 to Project Officer Annual Report, which in the Biodiversity progress a Biodiversity outlines our work from Strategy for England and Action Plan for London as Milestones 2000 January 2002 to March in the England a response to the process The Audit – Volume 1 2003 (as we move from Biodiversity Group initiated at the Earth published calendar year to financial publication “Natural Summit in Rio 1992, Our Green Capital year reporting). Partners, the when the UK government published. achievements of local signed the ‘Convention on Launch of the This year we have biodiversity partnerships Biological Diversity’. Partnership’s website attempted to be more in England”. www.lbp.org.uk with an quantitative in our online searchable presentation of progress One of the key reasons species audit. towards the Action Plan for the quality of the objectives. It is important Partnership is the hard Milestones 2001 that we report honestly, work of our co-ordinating The Action – Volume 2 and understand the staff. Whilst we are published barriers to future progress. grateful for funding from First Heathland Forum the Esmée Fairbairn © London Wildlife Trust held Things have come a long Foundation and others, Chalking Up London’s way since the Partnership the long-term survival of Downs project begins was first launched in the Partnership will 1996, and we now have a depend on a firm, reliable Milestones 2002 very strong base of base of core funding, The Action – Round 2 support linked to the which we aim to secure published many Borough through contributions London Bird Conference Biodiversity Partnerships from partners. The held at the Wetland © Thames Estuary Partnership that have been business planning process Centre established. Our partners that is underway aims to Second Heathland have dedicated achieve this. Forum held considerable time and House Sparrow Survey energy to the I look forward to the Launch of Partnership’s Action Partnership making www.black Plans and core activities. substantial progress in redstarts.org.uk I would like to pay tribute the coming year as we First Grey Heron Day to the huge range of implement our newly partners involved. There emerging business plan. Milestones 2003 are now 30 signatories to First Mistletoe our Memorandum of Professor David Goode transplants across Understanding. It is Chair of the London London heartening to see our Biodiversity Partnership © Mathew Frith © Mathew New Action for Nature © Metalanguage Design Bats Lead London Bat Group Further trials were conducted on the long- term pipistrelle monitoring programme to increase knowledge of bat distribution and population change. This is now ready to be scaled up © Sandi Bain/London Wildlife Trust and established during Work towards Action Plan January reporting round) 2003. objectives and targets has been delayed and has moved faster over eight Action Plans are this period with excellent significantly late in progress in some cases. delivering on their Four Action Plans have targets. reported no mayor delays in meeting their targets The majority of Chairs and nine Action Plans have highlighted two main have only minor delays. factors affecting Action This progress is testament Plan progress; the lack of to the individuals and financial resources organisations involved in available for project © Mike Waite © Mike implementing the actions implementation and the as well as the broad base lack of staff and volunteer A program of training for Grey Heron of partners who devised time required for co- bat box inspection Lead London Borough the specific objectives ordination. The licences has been set up of Wandsworth and actions in the Action Partnership is hoping to and the first person has The annual count of Plan. However, some work address these issues successfully completed heronries undertaken by on the majority of the through its Funding the training. BTO volunteers continued Action Plans (17 out of Strategy, and by securing during 2002. Active nests 21 received during the further dedicated staff. A London Bat Group at fifteen sites were member carried out a counted during this useful assessment of the period. Action Plan Progress 2002 - 2003 effects of light on a sensitive bat species for The assessment of Significantly the Bat Conservation conditions at heronries delayed Trust. The study pointed continues ahead of the out that Daubenton’s bats production of best Minor delays are very sensitive to light practice guidance for No delays pollution and would try to heronry management. avoid it even with Information is now held moderate light output. for Richmond Park, Heronries in London 2003 Heronries Regent’s Park - site of artificial nests © James Farrell Battersea Park, Lonsdale sparrows gone?’ was sparrows are still quite Road, Regents Park and carried out during the common, rather fewer Morden Hall Park. summer of 2002. The sparrows around the survey attracted over suburban outskirts, a In order to develop a 9,000 responses, counting defined sparrow hotspot on programme to monitor almost 75,000 sparrows the eastern side of London breeding success at and creating a detailed and a gaping hole in inner selected heronries, pilot © RSPB picture of the capital’s London. Another interesting guidelines were issued for Further events were held house sparrow population. result was that sparrows five sites. Two forms will in April 2003 extending to This was the largest public appear to be more likely to be sent out in 2003: one new sites around London. wildlife survey in London nest in homes built before for general heronry to date, and one of the 1945. A preliminary report counters, the other for House Sparrow largest ever public single of results was launched by respondees to the 2002 Lead Greater London species survey in the UK. The Mayor of London in questionnaire. Authority January 2003 and attracted The first ever public The broad picture given by wide media interest. Regents Park success- London Sparrow Survey the survey is of a ring of Further analysis of the data fully tested six artificial ‘Where have all our urban London where is intended for 2003. platforms made from 3 metre diameter by 1 House Sparrows in London, 2002 metre deep woven willow baskets. Four of these were subsequently nested in. Wandsworth Council is now considering a similar design to replace fallen 18-29% trees on a heronry. 29-40% London Heron Day was 51-62% first tried out on 14th of 62-73% April 2002 at Battersea 73-84% Park, Regents Park and 84-94% the Wetlands Centre. The Results shown borough-by- Percentage of homes borough from the London which took part in the event was very successful Biodiversity Partnership’s London Sparrow Survey ‘Where have all our sparrows which recorded house with 1,000 people gone?’ survey 2002 sparrows attending in total. Map produced by London Biodiversity Partnership/RSPB and other partners for the ‘Where have all our sparrows gone?’ Report 2002 All other maps produced by the London Wildlife Trust’s Biological Recording Project Reproduced from Ordnance Survey Meridian TM data with the permission of the controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. © Crown Copyright 1998. Licence No. AL100020841 Key areas for black redstarts Sand Martin Lead RSPB The Working Group made significant progress towards increasing the number of artificial breeding sites for sand martins across London during this year. An artificial bank wall was Known key areas for black redstarts created at Crossness The Thames Gateway The Lea Valley Nature Reserve in the The London Boroughs of Hackney and Tower Hamlets The City London Borough of Bexley Battersea Power Station and sand martin ‘tubes’ Likely key areas for black redstarts Railway land at Kings Cross were placed in a new Railway land from Euston to Wembley Railway land from St Pancras to Harrow flood defence at Deptford Creek. Furthermore, sand Black Redstart of the Working Group filled boxes with tubes Lead London Wildlife have delivered over were placed at two sites Trust fifteen presentations on within the Canary Wharf November 2002 saw the the black redstart and its Complex and a sand launch of habitat needs at martin bank is under www.blackredstarts.org.uk conferences and at construction at a key resource for meetings with planners. Beddington sewage developers, planners and Since the Plan was works. ecologists. It provides published over 15,000 m2 information on the bird’s of habitat mitigation in The East London Birders’ habitat requirements and London is required Forum has continued to research into green roofs specifically for black collect historic records of in Britain and Switzerland. redstarts (primarily breeding sand martin The website receives over rubble-based roofs), © James Farrell colonies within London. twelve hits a day mainly through planning Peregrine Falcon from professionals and conditions. The first two Lead English Nature Water Vole won the 2002-3 Golden completed black redstart- A peregrine falcon advice Lead London Wildlife Web Awards. related schemes were in note has been produced Trust place in 2002 at the and distributed via local In order to encourage the Laban Dance Centre and authorities and direct to creation of specific the Creekside Trust developers as required. landscape schemes in Education Centre in new developments the Deptford Creek, The London Borough of chair and other members Lewisham. Islington’s Nature Conservation Team has installed a peregrine nest box in the Old Street area © Mike Waite © Mike and there are plans to install a second one A pilot training day for during 2003.
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