Priority species and habitats


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Practice notes

Priority species and habitats


Published by a ½Û×ÓÊÓƵ Environment expert

Practice notes
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Overview of development of the UK Biodiversity Action Plan

The first UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP) was drawn up in January 1994. It described the biological resources of the UK and provided detailed plans for conservation of these resources. It was published in response to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) which the UK signed up to in 1992 in Rio De Janeiro. The UK was the first country to produce a national biodiversity action plan. Action plans for the most threatened species and habitats were set out to aid recovery, and national reports, produced every three to five years, showed how the UK BAP was contributing to the UK’s progress towards the significant reduction of biodiversity loss called for by the CBD.

For more information on the CBD and its development and implementation, see Practice Note: 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity—snapshot.

The original lists of UK BAP priority species and habitats were created between 1995 and 1999. Species were assessed according to four criteria:

  1. •

    threatened internationally

  2. •

    international responsibility and a 25% decline in the UK

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What does Priority mean?

The ranking of security interests ie the order in which each of the secured creditors can claim on the secured property in an enforcement or insolvency scenario. A deed of priority or intercreditor deed can vary the priority a security interest enjoys by virtue of general law.

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