04 Protected Species

Question 1

Where would you go to find out if a species was protected?

Answer 1

Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

• Schedule 1 - list of protected birds
• Schedule 5 - list of protected animals
• Schedule 8 - list of protected plants

Question 2

Name some protected species.

Answer 2

1. Bats
2. Great crested newts
3. Badgers
4. Dormouse
5. Water voles
6. Otters
7. Adders
8. Wild birds

Question 3

Is it only animal species that are protected?

Answer 3

Schedule 8 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 also lists protected plants (e.g. monkey orchids and water germanders)

Question 4

Whilst involved in refurbishing a Victorian house you discover there are bats in the roof. What would you do?

Answer 4

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