§ Mr. BaldryTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he will be making an announcement, following the recommendations submitted to him by the Nature Conservancy Council under section 24 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, about the protection of United Kingdom native species.
§ Mr. RidleyAfter extensive consultation and careful consideration of the NCCs recommendations, the Government have today announced their decision to change the protected lists in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 as follows:
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Common name Scientific name Additions to Schedule 5 (animals) Anemone, Ivell's Sea Edwardsia ivelli Anemone, Starlet Sea Nematosella Vectensis Apus Triops cancriformis Beetle, Violet Click Limoniscus violaceus Cat, Wild Felis silvestris Cicada, New Forest Cicadetta Montana Crayfish, Atlantic Stream (in respect of taking under section 9(1) and in all respects under section 9(5) only) Austropotamobius pallipes Dolphin (all species) Cetacea Dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius Leech, Medicinal Hirudo medicinalis Marten, Pine Martes martes Mat, Trembling Sea Victorella pavida
Common name Scientific name Moth, Vipers Bugloss Hadena irregularis Porpoise (all species) Cetacea Sandworn, Lagoon Armandia cirrhosa Shrimp, Fairy Chirocephalus diaphanus Shrimp, Lagoon Sand Gammarus insensibilis Turtles, Marine (all species) Dermochelyidea and Cheloniidae Vendace Coregonus albula Walrus Odebenus rosmarus Whale (all species) Cetacea Whitefish Coregonus lavaretus Adders-tongue, Least Ophioglossum lusitanicum Cabbage, Lundy Rhynchosinapis wrightii Colt's-foot, Purple Homogyne alpina Cottongrass, Slender Eriophorum gracile Crocus, Sand Romulea columnae Cudweed, Red-tipped Filago lutescens Fleabane, Alpine Erigeron borealis Fleabane, Small Pulicaria vulgaris Gentian, Fringed Gentiana ciliata Germander, Cut-leaved Teucrium botrys Goosefoot, Stinking Chenopodium vulvaria Grass-poly Lythrum hyssopifolia Hawk's-beard, Stinking Crepis foetida Helleborine, Young's Epipactis youngiana Horsetail, Branched Equisetum ramosissimum Hound's-tongue, Green Cynoglossum germanicum Marshwort, Creeping Apium repens Milk-parsley, Cambridge Selinum carvifolia Naiad, Holly-leaved Najas marina Pennyroyal Mentha pulegium Pigmyweed Crassula aquatica Ragwort, Fen Senecio paludosus Ramping-fumitory, Martin's Fumaria martinii Restharrow, Small Ononis reclinata Rock-cress, Alpine Arabis Alpina Rock-cress, Bristol Arabis stricta Speedwell, Fingered Veronica triphyllos Star-of-Bethlehem, Early Gagea bohemica Stonewort Lamprothamnium papulosum Strapwort Corrigiola litoralis Viper's-grass Scorzonera humilis Further bul slill only partial protection of Schedule 5 has been afforded to: Lizard, vivaporous Lacerta vivipara Slow-worm Anguis fragilis Snake, grass Natrix helvetical (natrix natrix) Deletions from Schedule 5 Snail, carthusian Monacha cartisiana Butterfly, chequered skipper Carterocephalus palaemon