In Oldham - there are thousands of different species of plants and animals. Most of you will know some of them but nobody knows every species. You may be familiar with the fox or bluebell, but less familiar with the huge variety of fungi, beetles and ferns.
Biodiversity is just a modern term used to describe all the plants and animals that exist in nature.
But in order to conserve the badger we must also protect the species that it eats and the natural habitat in which it lives. The more we study the wildlife of Oldham, the more we realise how each species interacts with each other. We need a wide variety of all sorts of species, in other words a rich level of biodiversity, in order to maintain and hopefully enhance the wildlife that live in our fields, moors, woods, ponds, gardens, rivers and streets. We should especially encourage those species such as the brown hare, badger, skylark, sundew, sphagnum moss, toad and newts, whose genes are specially adapted to our climate and local conditions, but which are in danger of being forced out by the actions of humans. We also need to know about other wildlife, particularly insects, which have yet to be recorded.