Biodiversity

Breckland Council aims to protect and enhance the landscape and its biodiversity in keeping with the policies of the adopted Core Strategy and Development Control Policies and with national and international obligations.

Biodiversity represents the amazing richness and variety of plants, animals, fungi and bacteria. Biodiversity is all living things from a beetle to a badger, from a lichen to a lime tree. You will find biodiversity everywhere from window boxes to wild woods, from roadsides to rabbit warrens. More information can be found on theNorfolk Biodiversity Partnership (opens new window).

Breckland has more County Wildlife Sites than any other in Norfolk including many nationally important Sites of Special Scientific Interest.  Information can be found atNorfolk Wildlife Trust (opens new window).

To view geographical information about the natural environment, please take a look atMagic Maps (opens new window).

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