Cornwall Biodiversity Initiative
The Cornwall Biodiversity Initiative (CBI) was launched in 1996 and is a voluntary partnership of organisations, businesses, local authorities, government agencies, groups and individuals. All have the shared objective of working together to protect and enhance Cornwall's wildlife.
The Cornwall Biodiversity Initiative (CBI) has been involved in the production and delivery of the Cornwall Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP). The Cornwall BAP is made up of four volumes, these are:
- Cornwall’s Biodiversity Volume 1: Audits and Priorities
- Cornwall’s Biodiversity Volume 2: Action Plans
- Cornwall’s Biodiversity Volume 3: Action Plans 2004
- Cornwall's Biodiversity Volume 4: Priority Projects 2010
Organisations in the CBI are responsible for working towards the actions in Cornwall’s Biodiversity Volumes 2 and 3 and have been identified as leads to carry forward the project areas in Volume 4 . It is hoped that with this co-ordinated approach we will be able to reverse the dramatic decline that so much of our wildlife has experienced.
Cornwall Biodiversity Initiative have also produced a report highlighting the impact of 5 landscape-scale projects on the delivery of Cornwall’s BAP Volume 3 targets and actions: Measuring BAP outcomes from landscape scale projects in Cornwall, this report can be downloaded from the related links section on the right hand side of this page.
From this report we can see that the delivery of these landscape scale projects have significantly contributed to some National BAP targets: - 4% of the National lowland heathland maintenance target
- 18% of the National lowland heathland expansion target
- 3.3% of the National fen maintenance target
- 4.6% of the National Purple moor grass and rush pasture maintenance target
The CBI steering group meets three times a year to discuss the Action Plans and relevant conservation projects. The agenda and minutes from previous meetings can be obtained from contacting the CBI.
