The Toolkit has been created by the Association of Local Government Ecologists (ALGE) in partnership with a wide range of conservation and planning organisations across the United Kingdom.
Innovative Visual Tools
The toolkit makes use of visual tools as well as text and in this respect we believe it is unique.
The interactive landscape has been specially designed to show biodiversity and geodiversity features in their correct landscape settings along with a growing number of the most commonly encountered development types.
An On-going Project
As with any other sort of 'toolbox', creation of the Biodiversity Planning Toolkit is an on-going project and even more text and visual graphics will be added over the coming months.
What's in the Toolkit?
There are two main parts to the Toolkit.
- First, is the traditional web site where you will be able to find information through the left hand navigation menu and where, as and when necessary, information is displayed for each of the four countries in the United Kingdom.
- Second, is the Interactive Landscape - accessed on the Home Page via the large landscape display. This contains a number of animated scenarios showing how biodiversity issues can be addressed in various types of development and in different planning situations. These can be accessed via drop down menu in the Types of Development button at the top of the landscape or by rolling the cursor over the development image in the actual landscape.