Lord Norrisasked Her Majesty's Government:
What progress has been made on the recommendation from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee that a number of species of endangered animals and plants should be added to schedules 5 and 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment (Lord Strathclyde)Following recommendations made by the Joint 35WA Nature Conservation Committee and consultation with other bodies, we have decided that we should add the following species of animals to Schedule 5 (protected animals) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and also amend Schedule 8 (protected plants) of that Act as follows:
Animals to be added to Schedule 5
Three species of beetle (Graphoderus zonatus, Hypebaeus flavipes and paracymus aeneus)
- Lesser silver water beetle
- Mire pill beetle
- High Brown Fritillary Butterfly (already partially protected)
- Northern hatchet shell
- Lagoon snail
- De Folin's snail
- Tentacled lagoon worm
- Sussex emerald moth
- Pink sea fan
- Lagoon sea slug
- Sturgeon
Plants to he added to Schedule 8
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- Blackwort
- Snow caloplaca
- Tree catapyrenium
- Laurer's catillaria
- Slender centaury
- Upright mountain cladonia
- Meadow clary
- Lizard crystalwrt
- Broad leaved cudweed Shore dock
- March earwort
- Norfolk flapwort
- Pointed frostwort
- Dune gentian
- Early gentian
- Blunt leaved grimmia
- Elm gyalecta
- Northroe hawkweed
- Shetland hawkweed
- Weakleaved hawkweed
- Churchyard lecanactis
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- Tarn lecanora
- Copper lecidea
- Arctic kidney lichen
- Ciliate strap lichen
- Coralloid rosette lichen
- Earlobed dog lichen
- Forked hair lichen
- Golden hair lichen
- Orange fruited elm lichen
- River jelly lichen
- Scaly breck lichen
- Stary breck lichen
- Lindenberg's leafy liverwort
- Alpine copper moss
- Baltic bog moss
- Blue dew moss
- Blunt leaved bristle moss
- Bright green cave moss
- Cordate beard moss
- Cornish path moss
- Derbyshire feather moss
- Dune thread moss
- Glaucous beard moss
- Green shield moss
- Hair silk moss
- Large yellow feather moss
- Multifruited river moss
- Millimetre moss
- Knothole moss
- Nowell's limestone moss
- Rigid apple moss
- Round leaved feather moss
- Schleicher's thread moss
- Triangular pygmy moss
- Vaucher's feather moss
- Welsh mudwort Stalked orache
- Lapland marsh orchid
- Caledonia pannaria
- New Forest parmelia
- Oil stain parmentaria
- Perfoliate penny cress
- Alpine moss pertusaria
- Southern grey physcia
- Ground pine
- Ragged pseudocyphellaria
- Rusty alpine psora
- Spiked rampion
- Western rustwort
- Serpentine solenopsora
- Bearded stonewort
- Turpswort
Plants to he deleted front Schedule 8
- Recurved sea lavender
- St. David's sea lavender
- Purple spurge
I will be placing an order before Parliament shortly which will bring these changes into effect. Further consideration is being given to three other recommendations made by the JNCC concerning the giant goby, the basking shark and the wild cat hybrid.