List of United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan species

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This is a list of United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan species. Some suffer because of

loss of habitat
, but many are in decline following the introduction of foreign species, which out-compete the native species or carry disease.

See also the

list of extinct animals of the British Isles
.

This list includes the 116 species identified as requiring action plans in the Biodiversity Steering Group's report of December 1995.

Mammals

Birds

List of UK BAP priority bird species.[1]

Reptiles[2]

  • Slow-worm
    (Anguis fragilis), Eurasia
  • Sand lizard (Lacerta agilis), most of Europe and eastwards to Mongolia
  • Northern or European adder
    (Vipera berus), Western Europe and Asia
  • Barred grass snake (Natrix helvetica), England, Wales and mainland Europe
  • Smooth snake
    (Coronella austriaca), northern and central Europe, Middle East

Amphibians

Fish

[3]

Insects

Ants

Bees

  • Shrill carder bee
    (Bombus sylvarum)
  • Wool carder bee

Beetles

Butterflies and moths

Crickets

Damselflies

Flies

Grasshoppers

Crustaceans

Molluscs

Gastropods

Freshwater snails:

Land snails:

Bivalves

Other invertebrates

Freshwater:

Marine:

Plants

Trees

  • Common juniper
    (Juniperus communis)
  • Plymouth Pear
    (Pyrus Cordata)

Flowering plants

Fungi

  • Devil's bolete (
    Boletus satanas
    )
  • Sandy stilt puffball (
    Battarraea phalloides
    )
  • White stalkball (Tulostoma niveum)

Lichens

Mosses

Liverworts

Stoneworts

See also

References

  1. ^ "UK BAP priority bird species". JNCC. Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  2. ^ "UK BAP priority herptile species". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 2015-11-04.
  3. ^ "UK BAP priority fish species (excluding purely marine species". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 2015-11-04.
  4. ^ Smart, Malcolm J.; Wright, Richard (2012). "A first record of Machimus cowini (Hobby) (Diptera, Asilidae) on the British mainland". Dipterists Digest. Second Series. 19 (2). Dipterists Forum: 151–154.

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