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LAWS OF 6 Endangered Species ST. HELENA ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION ORDER – SECTION 3 (Legal Notice 8 of 1996 made under Ord. 7 of 1996) Short title 1. This order may be cited as the Endangered Species Protection Order. Protection of certain animals and plants 2. The taking, damaging or killing of the plants and animals specified in the Schedule is forbidden. ___________ SCHEDULE Item no. Common name Scientific name Animals 1 Sea turtle and turtle eggs Chelonia mydas Eretmochelys imbricata 2 Spiney lobster when in berry Panulirus echinatus 3 Dolphins Stenalla attenuata Stenalla longirostris Tursiops truncatus 4 Wirebird Charadrius sanctae-helenae 5 Pickering or Maderian storm Oceanodroma castro castro petrel 6 Trophy bird or red-billed Phaethon aethereus tropicbird 7 Wideawake, sooty tern or eggbird Sterna fuscata 8 Blackbird or brown noddy Anous stolidus 9 Blackbird or noddy bird Anous minutus atlantious 10 White bird or fairy tern Gygis alba 11 Sooty shearwater Puffinus griseus 12 Little shearwater Puffinus lherminieri 13 Storm petrel spp. Pelagodroma marina Fregata ariel Fregata minor 14 Masked (blue-faced) booby Sula dactylatra 15 Brown booby Sula leucogaster 16 Red-footed booby Sula sula 17 Gull Larus sp. This e-version of the text is not authoritative for use in court. LAWS OF ST. HELENA Endangered Species 7 Plants 18 Baby’s toes Hrdrodea cryptantha 19 Bastard gumwood Commidendrum rotundifolium 20 Bone seed Osteospermum sanctae- helena 21 Dogwood Nesohedyotis arborea 22 Dwarf jelico Sium burchelli 23 Ebony Trochetiopsis ebenus 24 He cabbage tree Pladaroxylon leucadendron 25 Redwood Trochetiopsis erythroxylon 26 St. Helena rosemary Phylica polifolia 27 St. Helena salad plant Hypertelis acida 28 She cabbage tree Lachanodes arborea 29 Tree fern Dicksonia arborescens 30 Gumwood Commidendrum robustum 31 Whitewood Petrobium arboreum 32 Black cabbage tree Melanodendron integrifolium 33 Angelica/Large Jellico Sium helenianum 34 Scrubwood Commidendrum rugosum 35 False gumwood Commidendrum spurium 36 St. Helena tea plant Frankenia portulacaefolia 37 Lobelia Trimeris scaevofolia 38 Old father live forever Pelargonium cotyledonis 39 Plantain Plantago robusta 40 Small bellflower Wahlenbergia angustifolia 41 Large bellflower Wahlenbergia linifolia 42 St. Helena olive Nesiota elliptica This e-version of the text is not authoritative for use in court. .

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