Wildlife and Biodiversity
Last updated | 29/06/2007
Perth and Kinross has a wealth of wildlife!
From ospreys to otters, on rivers and lochs, from peregrin falcons to rare plants on cliffs and hills, and from red deer to delicate montane ecosystems, Perth and Kinross has them all!
Why is there so much wildlife here?
Because Perth and Kinross has a mixture of habitats - the places where animals and plants like to live - from tidal rivers, to highland muirs, and from rich woodland, to coniferous forest there is both the space and the habitat suitable for a wide range of animals.
What is Biodiveristy?
Biodiversity was a term coined in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. It is now commonly used and describes the variety of life. The biodiversity of the planet, a country, or a local area is the wealth of life that lives there, including all plants and animals, and even including the genetic differences between plants and animals!
+ Find out more about Scottish Biodiversity
What are you doing to help our local Biodiversity?
Perth and Kinross Council is part of the Tayside Local Biodiversity Partnership and has, through a Biodiversity Coordinator, put together the Tayside Local Biodiversity Action Plan.
+Visit the Tayside Local Biodiversity Partnership website
The plan is a guidance document for all the Council to use as a refernce to make sure that all the wildlife in Perth and Kinross is protected. It highlights various species and habitats that are of special importance and need extra protection. The plan also highlights a number of projects that the Council and Community Groups, volunteers and others are working on to improve and protect.
Are you doing anything else?
The Countryside Ranger Service, as well as manging the sites that the Council own in the best way possible for both people to visit and the resident wildlife, work with many of the sub-groups of the Biodiversity Partnership and work on several Tayside wide projects with other Rangers. These include:
- Red Squirrels
- Water Voles
- Wildfowl
- Invasive Species
- Swifts
The Ranger Service is actively involved in the Perth and Kinross Red Squirrel Group, Scottish Badgers and the Perth and Kinross Bat Group.
