PART 4Environmental control of animal and plant species

I1I224Native and non-native species etc

1

Schedule 9 to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (animals and plants to which section 14 of that Act applies) is amended as follows.

2

In the heading to Part I, at the beginning insert “ NON-NATIVE ”.

3

In Part I, omit the entries relating to the wild boar, capercaillie, chough, corncrake, common crane, white-tailed eagle, goshawk, red kite and barn owl.

4

After Part I insert—

PART IANATIVE ANIMALS

Common name

Scientific name

Capercaillie

Tetrao urogallus

Chough

Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

Corncrake

Crex crex

Crane, Common

Grus grus

Eagle, White-tailed

Haliaetus albicilla

Goshawk

Accipiter gentilis

Kite, Red

Milvus milvus

Owl, Barn

Tyto alba.

NOTE. The common name or names given in the first column of this Schedule are included by way of guidance only; in the event of any dispute or proceedings, the common name or names shall not be taken into account.

5

After Part IA (as inserted by subsection (4) above) insert—

PART IBANIMALS NO LONGER NORMALLY PRESENT

Common name

Scientific name

Beaver, Eurasian (but not in relation to Wales)

Castor fiber

Boar, Wild

Sus Scrofa.

NOTE. The common name or names given in the first column of this Schedule are included by way of guidance only; in the event of any dispute or proceedings, the common name or names shall not be taken into account.