The Environment Agency s principle aim is to protect
and enhance the environment.
Enhancing biodiversity
is also an important concern.
This report continues to
illustrate the utility of linking the WBBS and RHS.
Patterns and changes in bird numbers are...
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The Environment Agency s principle aim is to protect
and enhance the environment.
Enhancing biodiversity
is also an important concern.
This report continues to
illustrate the utility of linking the WBBS and RHS.
Patterns and changes in bird numbers are being
detected, and links with habitat character are clear.
Long term trends in numbers of river birds are
increasingly apparent and birds (which are the most
species-rich vertebrate group in the UK) are also
providing some of the clearest indications of how the
RHS has relevance to the positive management of
rivers for biodiversity.
In both respects the Agency is
discharging an important part of its statutory duties
R&D Technical Report W22: "The Waterways Bird
Survey - An Evaluation and Appraisal of its Future
Role" recommended that the British Trust for
Ornithology s Waterways Bird Survey be redesigned to
target National, Regional, catchment and individual
river sections.
In particular, linkage with the River
Habitat Survey (RHS
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