E1.3Improve biodiversity and resilience of City parks and greenspaces

The Biodiversity Conservation Strategy (2014) provides a framework for maintaining and increasing biodiversty in Surrey. The Parks Division has been actively managing park land by removing invasive plants and installing native trees and shrubs for over 20 years.

Ongoing actions to improve biodiversity in City parks and greenspaces include:

• Removal of invasive plants in park land and replanting with native trees and shrubs.
• Creation of pollinator meadows in park land
• Installation of drought tolerant horticultural plants in garden beds