Improve biodiversity and resilience of City parks and greenspaces, such as by controlling invasive species and including more native plants, pollinator habitat and water-conserving landscaping features
(Full action name in the CCAS)5. Climate-Positive Resilient Ecosystems / 5.1. Protect, connect, and restore ecosystems / E1. Explore opportunities to further protect, manage, and restore ecosystems, and incorpor... /
E1.3Improve biodiversity and resilience of City parks and greenspaces
Progress
- Not started
- Planning
- Implementation
- Continuous
On time
The Natural Area Management and Biodiversity Design Guidelines provide a framework to increase biodiversity and resilience of City parks and greenspaces.
Official description
Description
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
Tasks
What has been done?
- 12/31/2024
Invasive plant removal and native tree and shrub planting.
24,077 native trees and 23,744 native shrubs were planted in 2024 and over 7,000 square meters of invasive plants were removed.