Biodiversity & Town Planning

Our Biodiversity Improvement Services

 Swift Conservation can improve the biodiversity of your projects. As well as helping you design in features for Swifts, we can add features for beneficial insects, arachnids, other invertebrates, bats, birds of prey, small insectivorous birds like Wagtails and Black Redstarts, House Martins and Swallows, as well as seed-eaters like Finches. Tell us about your project and we'll see what we can do!

Planning the Built Environment for Swifts

We provide advice to local authorities seeking to retain or augment Swift populations in their buildings. If you need help with saving Swift nestplaces in old buildings, and getting new ones designed into new or refurbished buildings, ask us; we can help. We can also advise on how to attract other bird species too.

Swift Conservation also advises on Biodiversity Policies and Action Plans (BAP's) and is happy to offer drafted solutions to local authorities. See below for a free sample BAP, and an example of a current Action Plan.

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Sample BAP Click here to see a sample Biodiversity Action Plan which you may copy

The Biodiverse Building Click here to see how to turn an ordinary building into a wildlife haven

London's Swift Action Plan Click here to download the London Biodiversity Partnership's Swifts Statement / Action Plan*

Edinburgh's Swift Action Plan Click here to download Edinburgh's Swift Action Plan*

Adobe Reader *These are PDF files. You will need the Adobe® Reader™ to open them. Download it here

Need Advice? Need advice? For more information contact Swift Conservation

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