The Ecology Plan is both a statement and a guidance document, to ensure that university personnel are equipped with the background information, direction and the means by which the ecology and biodiversity resources can be safeguarded for the future.
Ecology Plan
Conserving and enhancing our natural resources is essential to sustainable development and good quality of life for everyone. Conserving our ecosystems and the biodiversity that they support is essential to our health and wellbeing and should be central to all our thinking and planning for a more sustainable lifestyle.
Protected Species
Our campus isn't just home to students. The University estate supports a huge variety of important or protected species, including bats and birds. Some species use university buildings throughout the year as their habitat and as a result, projects are underway to improve the way we build and maintain campus.
Teaching and Research
Current NERC-funded research which is using the campus landscape is demonstrating a greater potential for trees to re-evaporate rainfall during large storms and so leave less to produce floods.
Get involved
Launched in 2015 to engage with students and promote sustainability, Green Lancaster has evolved to become a passionate community, committed to tackling the toughest environmental issues of today. The Green Lancaster team host a wide variety of events and initiatives throughout each year to give everyone the chance to get involved.
Green Lancaster