Looking After
How we work to look after the National Park, conservation, ranger services, biodiversity and policies.
- The work of the Authority
How we make decisions, the role of Members and staff. - Current consultations
We want your opinions on these consultations - Ranger service
What our rangers and volunteers do around the National Park. - Plans & policies
Corporate plans and policies
Biodiversity in the Peak District
At a national level, within the UK Biodiversity Action Plan, certain habitats and species have been identified as being of particular conservation importance.
Wildlife doesn't respect administrative boundaries, and neither does the Peak District BAP area. The BAP doesn't follow the National Park boundary (the light green area on the map), instead it more or less follows the boundaries of three Natural Areas (the red dotted lines on the map).
They are:
- the Dark Peak - characterised by extensive areas of moorland
- the White Peak - with its rolling limestone plateau and dales
- the South West Peak - similar to the Dark Peak but with a more complicated mosaic of habitats and more extensive areas of farmland.
This means that the Biodiversity Action Plan covers the National Park part of Derbyshire, and parts of Kirklees, Barnsley, Sheffield, Staffordshire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester. The total BAP area is approximately 1851 km2 (185,100 hectares).
Seven other Local Biodiversity Action Plans adjoin or partially overlap the Peak District BAP.
