| Re: Legally Protected Wildlife
Protection for non-vertebrates is done on a landowning basis. The landowner has the final decision what will happen to the plants/animals on their land unless that land is declared an SSSI or some other limitation applied on it. The only invertebrates that are safe are those on land owned by such as National Trust ... for as long as they have a nature conservation plan!
As noted, a few invertebrate species have special protection. Personally, I think that species protection, except in a few special cases, is not the answer.
We need to protect habitats and a whole collection of species (the community) rather than one or two species .... this is a long and complex argument that I don't want to get into. Think about it - save one bumble bee by saving its habitat then you save several other bees and also beetle, flies, moths ...... |