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
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The Natural Area Management and Biodiversity Design Guidelines provide a framework to increase 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:
9,382 native trees and 18,383 native shrubs were planted in 2025 and over 39,000 square meters of invasive plants were removed.
24,077 native trees and 23,744 native shrubs were planted in 2024 and over 7,000 square meters of invasive plants were removed.