Almost a Quarter of UK's Endangered Species Declining
The list includes red squirrels, juniper trees and
turtle doves among hundreds more.....
The list includes red squirrels, juniper trees and
turtle doves among hundreds more.....
By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent
Published: 7:00AM BST 22 May 2010
Straight from telegraph.co.uk.org: The Government is part of an international treaty to stop global biodiversity loss by 2010 in order to protect hundreds of endangered species like the bumblebee, common toad and house sparrow.
But an official report, published quietly this week by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) discloses that 88 species are continuing to decline such as sky larks, pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly, fen orchid, freshwater pearl mussel and black grouse.
Of the 370 species identified as under threat only half are stable or increasing meaning the rest are in decline or there is simply not enough data. This includes wild asparagus, great yellow bumblebee, basking shark, lady's slipper orchid and capercaillie. READ FULL ARTICLE
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~ Anatole France
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