May. 16 2024
Source Page: Criminal Justice System statistics quarterly: December 2023Found: motoring)0990309903 - Offences relating to the purchase and sale of specimens (Control of Trade in Endangered
Asked by: Ruth Jones (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what progress he has made on implementing the recommendations included in the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime report entitled Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit Report, published in 2021.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
We welcomed the UN Office of Drugs and Crime report and the fact that it recognised the UK's global leadership in fighting wildlife and forestry crime. We invited the UN to undertake this analysis and we are proud to be the first G7 country to request this assessment.
We have carefully considered all the recommendations of the report and they are informing our work to help us build on the positive progress we have already made in tackling wildlife crime. This will include strategic engagement with our partners that have responsibilities where individual recommendations are concerned such as the devolved administrations, the Crown Prosecution Service, and the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU).
Many of the resourcing recommendations fall outside of Defra's remit but progress has already been made in response to the report. For example, in 2022 Defra more than doubled its funding of the NWCU to £1.2 million for the three-year period from 2022 to 2025, compared to £495,000 in the three years previous. Additionally, Border Force has increased numbers in their team specialising in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
May. 14 2024
Source Page: Board of Commissioners meeting, 27 October 2022Found: Table 1: Summary of key protections and conservation status for curlew, lapwing and redshank Species
Mentions:
1: James Davies (Con - Vale of Clwyd) total population of just six plants, Chester zoo and partners have worked to rescue the critically endangered - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) Zoos are also working to recover species. - Speech Link
3: Chris Grayling (Con - Epsom and Ewell) around the world and hoovering up the oceans, without any reference at all to sustainability or the endangered - Speech Link
4: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) , a 60% population decline in invertebrate species and a 41% decline in known insect species. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) By maintaining genetically diverse populations of endangered species and supporting field conservation - Speech Link
2: Lord Camoys (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Today, it is home to critically endangered species such as the Waldrapp ibis, the Annam leaf turtle and - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LD - Life peer) Sadly, it is the intervention of the human species that has led to the decline of both those species - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) Bridges Primary School wrote to me very eloquently about their concern for the welfare and protection of endangered - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Pow (Con - Taunton Deane) go back and tell them that this Government are absolutely committed to tackling this and to helping endangered - Speech Link
May. 08 2024
Source Page: Fusion energy facilities: new National Policy Statement and proposals on sitingFound: (including migratory species) listed in Appendix 3.
May. 08 2024
Source Page: Fusion energy facilities: new National Policy Statement and proposals on sitingFound: for nature conservation purposes (including candidate and potential sites) • Protect and enhance endangered
May. 08 2024
Source Page: NRS Oldbury Site Environmental Management PlanFound: The estuary also attracts large populations of important migratory fish species .
Mentions:
1: Smyth, Colin (Lab - South Scotland) For example, species that are allowed to breed successfully on a farm will expand to wider areas, and - Speech Link
2: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) habitats but not off-farm rivers that are being polluted by agricultural run-off, adding pressure on our endangered - Speech Link