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Home > Spaces and species > UrbanLife
Urban habitats include the places where we live and work. They’re in towns and villages, farm buildings and caravan parks. They’re also in industrial estates, retail parks, urban parkland, road verges and rail systems. Domestic gardens and allotments are also urban habitats.
All of these spaces are important for our health and well-being. For many, seeing the apple trees blossom or hearing the birds singing lifts the spirit. Working the soil, planting vegetables or flowers connects gardeners to the earth and the seasons. There are those in our communities who for various reasons cannot leave their homes or their neighbourhoods. For them, urban habitats provide the only opportunity to explore and interact with nature.
Have you ever looked closely at the moss growing on a brick wall? Or listened to the sparrows quarrelling in a backyard bush? In our cities, towns and villages squirrels are busy stashing acorns for winter. Blackbirds are listening, head cocked, for the sound of earthworms tunnelling through the soil. Another of many, many days passes for the old oak trees. There is interesting wildlife even in the most urban places. You might just have to look close to see it.
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Bedfordshire & Luton Biodiversity Partnership ℅ The Wildlife Trust, Priory Country Park, Barkers Lane Bedford MK41 9DJ |
The Bedfordshire & Luton
Biodiversity Action Plan includes the following plans related to urban habitats
and species:
