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UK02 Biodiversity the UK Action Plan For more information about the UK Biodiversity Action Plan visit http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-5155 BIODIVERSITY THE UK ACTION PLAN This document is printed on recycled paper comprising about 75% wood-free unprinted waste and 25% Elemental Chlorine Free pulp. The water-based varnish applied to the cover is fully recyclable. BIODIVERSITY THE UK ACTION PLAN Presented to Parliament by the Secretaries of State for the Environment and for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President of the Board of Trade, the Secretaries of State for Transport, Defence, National Heritage and Employment, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Secretaries of State for Scotland, Northern Ireland, Education and Health, the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Wales and the Minister for Overseas Development by Command of Her Majesty. January 1994. Cm 2428 LONDON: HMSO £18.50 net 2 FOREWORD In June 1992 the Prime Minister and over 150 other heads of state or governments signed the Convention on Biological Diversity at Rio de Janeiro.They did so to express a shared belief that action must be taken to halt the worldwide loss of animal and plant species and genetic resources.They recognised that each country has the primary responsibility to save and enhance biodiversity within its jurisdiction.At the same time they agreed to draw up national plans and programmes and to share resources to help implement them. This document represents the first United Kingdom biodiversity action plan. It has been drawn up to a tight timetable, as the Prime Minister promised shortly after Rio, to demonstrate our commitment to the Convention. We accept that we have a contribution to make to the richness of the world's wildlife.The Darwin Initiative, the Aid Programme, the development of biodiversity action plans for our Dependent Territories and the fine work of our Institutions will help towards this aim.We also accept that we should further develop our strategies and programmes to ensure the conservation and, where possible, the enhancement of biodiversity within the UK.As the plan shows the Government and others in the UK are already strongly committed to the objectives of the convention, and are putting them into practice. The plan which follows commits the Government, but just as we were not able to draw up the document without a wide and vigorous contribution from people and organisations who care about our natural heritage, so we shall not be able to deliver the plan without their active participation.The Government can take a lead and establish a framework but whether, in the end, we and our children enjoy a country which is richer or poorer in species and habitats depends on all of us. We welcome debate and comments on the plan from home and abroad.We regard it as a first attempt to draw together a demanding programme of activity and commitment.To accelerate progress, and to sustain the open process by which this document has been prepared, the Government has agreed to set up a Biodiversity Action Plan Steering Group with membership drawn from central and local government, agencies, collections, academic bodies and non-governmental organisations. Its task will be to oversee the development of a range of targets for biodiversity so that they can be adopted in 1995 the European Nature Conservation Year. The Steering Group will also help to monitor the implementation of the actions contained in this plan.We look forward to continuing co-operation in this process. JOHN GUMMER IAN LANG JOHN REDWOOD SIR PATRICK MAYHEW BARONESS CHALKER OF WALLASEY Secretary of State for Secretary of State Secretary of State Secretary of State Minister for the Environment for Scotland for Wales for Northern Ireland Overseas Development 3 4 CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER FOREWORD 6 OUTLINE OF ACTION PLAN 7 SECTION 1 CHAPTER 1 Setting the Scene CHAPTER 2 UK Science Base CHAPTER 3 UK Biodiversity 49 SECTION 2 CHAPTER 4 Conservation within Habitats CHAPTER 5 Conservation outside Natural Habitats CHAPTER 6 Sustainable Use CHAPTER 7 Partnership and Education CHAPTER 8 UK Support to Biodiversity Overseas CHAPTER 9 information and Data 159 SECTION 3 CHAPTER I0 Targets and Monitoring 173 ANNEXES A Glossary B Contributors C Further Reading 5 OUTLINE OF THE ACTION PLAN SECTION 1 SECTION 3 This section describes the United Kingdom’s biological The final section, chapter 10, draws the components of the resource, and its importance in relation to Europe and the action plan together, and provides a forward work rest of the world. Chapter I explains the commitments programme. It describes the mechanisms for made at the United Nations Conference on Environment implementation, reporting and review, and proposes a new and Development (the “Earth Summit”). It defines what is Biodiversity Action Plan Steering Group which will have meant by biodiversity, why it is important and the objectives responsibility for overseeing the development of targets for of the action plan. Chapter 2 examines the growth of our biodiversity, and the techniques and programmes necessary scientific knowledge, our scientific tradition and collections, to achieve them. The outcome will be reported in 1995 and the role of scientific research in conserving our which has been designated by the Council of Europe as the biodiversity. It sets out our commitment to continue this European Nature Conservation Year. tradition by underpinning policy and programmes with sound science. Chapter 3 looks at UK biodiversity from a historical NOTES and geographical perspective. It describes the range and variation of species and habitats, and the genetic variation This three stage approach is generally in line with the UN within species to be found in the UK, and why UK Environment Programme guidelines, of national assessment biodiversity is special and significant. of country study/national strategy/action plan. Because of the UK‘s tradition and science base developed over 200 years, we have decided to include the country study, the strategy SECTION 2 and the action plan in one document. This section describes the UK’s strategy and programmes, and examines threats, problems, and opportunities. The adjective ‘British’ is used throughout the action plan to Chapter 4 looks at conservation within habitats (in-situ) mean ‘of the United Kingdom’. and how the nature conservation agencies implement government strategy through the designation of protected The definition of biodiversity provided by Article 2 of the areas and, increasingly, through measures to restore Biodiversity Convention is: biodiversity in the wider countryside. Chapter 5 examines conservation outside natural habitats (ex-situ) and the techniques which are employed for conserving plants, animals and micro-organisms through collections, storage ‘The variability among living organisms from all sources and propagation (among others). Chapter 6 is concerned including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic with the sustainable use of those natural resources which ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they contribute to biodiversity and how they may be conserved are part; this includes diversity within species, between and enhanced for future generations. Chapter 7 explains species and of ecosystems.’ the role of environmental awareness and education, and the contribution that can be made by all sectors of our society. Chapter 8 describes the support the UK gives to biodiversity overseas and our special responsibility for This plan addresses biodiversity in this sense with primary Antarctica, the Crown Dependencies and the Dependent reference to the UK, but with a chapter on UK Territories. Chapter 9 explains the importance of responsibilities overseas. It does not consider the issue of information and data and the need to establish a national biotechnology which is also dealt with in the Biodiversity biota database. Convention, as this is covered in the parallel document Sustainable Development:The UK Strategy. 6 SECTION 1 CHAPTER 1 SETTING THE SCENE 1.1 Charles Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species: resource to be protected and conserved according to principles of ecological, economic and social sustainability. Protecting and enhancing biodiversity were therefore among ‘Why, if man can by patience select variations most the critical issues addressed at the Earth Summit. useful to himself, should nature fail in selecting variations useful, under changing conditions of life, to her living products? What limit can be put to this power, acting THE EARTH SUMMIT during long ages and rigidly scrutinising the whole 1.3 In June 1992 around 150 Heads of State or Governments constitution, structure, and habits of each creature – attended the United Nations Conference on Environment favouring the good and rejecting the bad? I can see no and Development (The ‘Earth Summit’) at Rio de Janeiro. limit to this power, in slowly and beautifully adapting each This was the largest ever gathering of world leaders and form to the most complex relations of life.’ signalled that environmental concerns had assumed a very high priority on the world’s political agenda. If this was true when Charles Darwin presented his paper 1.4 The Convention on Biological Diversity was an to the Linnean Society in 1858, it is equally true today. important component of the Earth Summit and was signed at Biodiversity (‘or variability within nature’) is life around us. Rio by over 150 countries including the United Kingdom (and It is a wonder and
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