Biodiversity Action Plan

What was the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead's Biodiversity Action Plan 2021-2026?

The RBWM Biodiversity Action Plan 2021-2026 was a key pillar of the natural environment theme of the RBWM Environment and Climate Strategy, which seeks to protect and enhance the natural environment, green our towns and urban areas and increase awareness of biodiversity. Therefore, the overarching approach was based on those objectives. The overarching vision for our Biodiversity Action Plan was: ‘To reverse the decline in our natural environment and through better data, partnerships and direct action to increase biodiversity across the borough’.

The purpose of the Biodiversity Action Plan was to create a robust set of steps that helps us reverse the decline in our natural environment and through better data, partnerships and direct action, increase biodiversity across the borough. This page contains legacy information on the RBWM Biodiversity Action Plan, including:

The Biodiversity Action Plan document

Progress reports on the plan

Diagrams explaining the different habitat goals of the BAP

Resources for landowners and volunteers

Superseding the Biodiversity Action Plan - The Berkshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy

The RBWM Biodiversity Action Plan 2021-2026 is now a legacy document. Focus habitats and actions to improve these habitats helped RBWM, community groups and landowners to focus energies over the past 5 years. The publication of the Berkshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) in October 2025, a spatial plan for nature recovery agreed by all councils of Berkshire with input from thousands of stakeholders, is now published. Together with relevant targets from the Biodiversity Action Plan, the Berkshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy now provides the main focus for nature recovery in RBWM. The LNRS describes Berkshire and its future opportunities and challenges for nature, lists priority species and measures to achieve them lists habitat priorities and actions to achieve them,, and these habitat improvements across Berkshire. For more information on the Berkshire LNRS and to view the full documents and map, click this link.