This publication provides a comprehensive listing of all those British animals and plants, over 500, which are protected under the various laws and conventions which have been implemented. Species accounts are divided systematically; summary data given include scientific taxonomy, common name, type and degree of legal protection, threat status, distinguishing features and identification aids, and notes on distribution, habitat, natural history, conservation and sources of other information. There are summary tables of all species in the database, glossary, full reference list and full indexing of English and scientific names. In addition there is an Appendix of the full new text of Red List Categories from IUCN.
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