Species

An important part of JNCC's work concerns species conservation. This includes giving advice on UK policy and legislation regarding species, as well as commissioning and supporting surveillance and monitoring schemes to assess and report upon the changing status of species in the UK. This section covers terrestrial and freshwater species. Find out about marine species.

Species Status

JNCC has collated information on species status and designations, and you can download the list as a spreadsheet. 

 

A new review of dragonfly species status updates has been published: The Odonata Red List for Great Britain (2008), Daguet, C., French, G., and Taylor, P., (eds). This replaces the assessment published over 20 years ago in the Insect Red Data Book (Shirt, 1987). Over the intervening years dragonfly recording effort has strengthened, the IUCN Red List criteria and categories have been radically overhauled and the distribution of dragonfly species has changed.

 

Quinquennial Review

Every five years, the statutory nature conservation agencies (Natural England, Countryside Council for Wales and Scottish Natural Heritage), working jointly through the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), are required to review Schedules 5 and 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and to make recommendations to the Secretary of State and Ministers for the Environment. Schedule 5 lists animals (other than birds) which are specially protected, and Schedule 8 lists plants which are specially protected.

 

Link: The Fifth Quinquennial Review of Schedules 5 and 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981

 

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