Suffolk's local Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) was launched in June '98, and has been given some general publicity, but unless you have taken the trouble to look it up in your local Public Library, the chances are that you have not seen the document itself. Produced by a Biodiversity Working Group chaired by the County Council, the plan is the local iteration of the UK BAP, which itself is the UK follow-up to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Both plans identify particular habitats and specific species which are under threat, and offer action plans for the conservation of the remaining habitat and the threatened species. Each action plan functions as a partnership, with the landowners and reserve managers putting into effect the guidance offered by English Nature and other specialist contributors. Our County Wildlife Recorders are already involved to varying degrees, and they have a major role to play in the coming years, as almost all of the plans depend on past distribution records and on future monitoring.
Where you as an SNS member can help depends on your interests (how many of the Biodiversity species can you identify with authority?) and on where you live (are you within easy reach of any of the Biodiversity habitats?). Have a look at the tables to make a preliminary judgement. Appendix II lists the habitats and species for which National and Local action plans already exist, and also shows which agency has been appointed at National level as "Lead Partner". The much longer "middle lists" of habitats and species for which plans have yet to be written are covered at Appendix III (habitats) and IV (species). Somewhere in these lists you will find some of your favourite places, plants and creatures.
In future editions of White Admiral we will be featuring some of these species and the associated action plans, with the aim of giving all SNS members a better chance to contribute to recording in support of the plans. The task is too big to expect the County Recorders to do it single-handed; they will be needing your help!
Rob Parker
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National Contact |
National Lead Partner |
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Cereal field margins |
MAFF |
MAFF |
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Ancient/species rich hedgerows |
MAFF |
MAFF |
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Coastal and flood plain grazing marsh |
EN |
EN |
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Lowland heath land |
EN |
EN |
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Fens |
EN |
EN |
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Reedbeds |
EN |
EN |
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Saline Lagoons |
EN |
EN |
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Sea grass/Eel grass beds |
Department of Agriculture (NI) |
Department of Agriculture (NI) |
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National Contact |
National Lead Partner |
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Water vole Arvicola terrestris |
EA |
EA |
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Brown hare Lepus europaeus |
CCW |
Mammal Soc.& GCT |
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European otter Lutra lutra |
EA |
Wildlife Trusts & EA |
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Dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius |
EN |
EN |
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Pipistrelle bat Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
EN |
Bat Cons. Trust |
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Red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris |
EN |
UK red squirrel group |
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Harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena |
Sea Mammal Research Unit |
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Skylark Alauda arvensis |
MAFF |
RSPB |
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Bittern Botaurus stellaris |
EN |
RSPB |
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Stone curlew Burhinus oedicnemus |
MAFF |
RSPB |
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Grey partridge Perdix perdix |
MAFF |
GCT |
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Song thrush Turdus philomelos |
EN |
RSPB |
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Natterjack toad Bufo calamita |
EN |
HCT |
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Great crested newt Triturus cristatus |
EN |
CT,Froglife,BHS |
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A snail Anisus vorticulus |
EA |
EA |
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Depressed river mussel Pseudanodonta complanata |
EA |
EA |
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Shining ram’s-horn snail Segmentina nitida |
EA |
EA |
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Narrow-mouth whorl snail Vertigo angustior |
CCW |
CCW |
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Desmoulin’s whorl snail V.moulinsiana |
EN |
EN |
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White-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes |
EA |
GCT |
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Starlet sea-anemone Nematostella vectensis |
EN |
WWF |
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Bright wave moth Idaea ochrata |
EN |
Butterfly Cons. |
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A leaf beetle Cryptocephalus exiguus |
EN |
Wildlife Trusts |
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Stag beetle Lucanus cervus |
EN |
People’s Trust En.Sp. |
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Sandy stilt puffball Battarraea phalloides |
EN |
Wildlife Trusts |
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Starry breck-lichen Buellia asterella |
EN |
EN |
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Orange-fruited elm-lichen Caloplaca luteoalba |
EN |
Nat.History Musem |
This list comprises those habitats for which a Suffolk Local Action Plan will be produced during 1998/9.
Wet Woodlands
Lowland wood pastures and parkland
Lowland hay meadow
Lowland dry acid grassland
Purple moor-grass and rush meadows
Lowland calcareous grassland
Eutrophic open water
Maritime cliff and slope
Coastal vegetated shingle structure
Coastal saltmarsh
Coastal sand dune
Estuaries
Deep Mud
Urban
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Mammals |
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Balaenoptera acutorostrata |
Minke whale [rare sightings or strandings on Suffolk coast] |
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Balaenoptera borealis |
Sei whale [rare sightings or strandings on Suffolk coast] |
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Balaenoptera physalus |
Fin whale [rare sightings or strandings on Suffolk coast] |
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Barbastella barbastellus |
Barbastelle |
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Rhinolophus hipposideros |
Lesser horseshoe bat |
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Birds |
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Caprimulgus europaeus |
Nightjar |
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Carduelis cannabina |
Linnet |
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Emberiza schoeniclus |
Reed bunting |
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Lullula arborea |
Woodlark |
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Miliaria calandra |
Corn bunting |
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Muscicapa striata |
Spotted flycatcher |
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Passer montanus |
Tree sparrow |
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Pyrrhula pyrrhula |
Bullfinch |
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Streptopelia turtur |
Turtle dove |
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Bees |
(there may be further additions) |
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Bombus ruderatus |
Large garden bumble bee |
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Wasps |
(there may be further additions) |
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Cerceris quinquefasciata |
5-banded tailed digger wasp |
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Beetles |
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Amara famelica |
a ground beetle |
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Anisodactylus nemorivagus |
a ground beetle |
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Badister anomalus |
a ground beetle |
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Badister peltatus |
a ground beetle |
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Bembidion nigropiceum |
a ground beetle |
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Bidessus unistriatus |
a water beetle |
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Byctiscus populi |
Poplar leaf roller |
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Cicindela hybrida |
a ground beetle |
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Cicindela maritima |
a ground beetle |
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Donacia aquatica |
a leaf beetle |
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Donacia bicolora |
a leaf beetle |
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Harpalus froelichi |
a ground beetle |
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Harpalus parallelus |
a ground beetle |
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Harpalus punctatulus |
a ground beetle |
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Lionychus quadrillum |
a ground beetle |
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Melanapion minimum |
a seed weevil |
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Psylliodes sophiae |
a leaf beetle |
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Rhynchaenus testaceus |
a weevil |
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Saproxylic |
(dead wood) beetle species associated with old trees and parkland. |
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Butterflies |
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Plebejus argus |
Silver-studded blue |
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Crustaceans |
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Gammarus insensibilis |
Lagoon sand shrimp |
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Flies |
(there may be further additions) |
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Bombylius discolor |
a bee fly |
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Molluscs |
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Modiolus modiolus |
Horse mussel |
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Moths |
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Athetis pallustris |
` Marsh moth |
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Coleophora tricolor |
a micro-moth |
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Heliophobus reticulata |
Bordered gothic |
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Hypena rostralis |
Buttoned snout |
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Mythimna turca |
Double line |
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Noctua arbona |
Lunar yellow underwing |
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Pareulype berberata |
Barberry carpet |
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Polia bombycina |
Pale shining brown |
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Tyta luctuosa |
Four-spotted |
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Xestia rhomboidea |
Square-spotted clay |
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Spiders |
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Clubina rosserae |
a foliage spider |
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Dolomedes plantarius |
Fen raft spider |
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Euophrys browningi |
a jumping spider |
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Fungi |
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Boletus regius |
a bolete |
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Buglossoporus pulvinus |
a basidiomycete fungus |
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Hericium erinaceum |
a basidiomycete fungus |
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Lichens |
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Bacidia incompta |
a lichen |
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Lecanactis hemisphaerica |
Scaly breck-lichen |
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Liverworts |
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Pallavicinia lyellii |
a liverwort |
Mosses
Leptodontium gemmascens
a moss
Seligeria paucifolia
a moss
Vascular plants
Alyssum alyssoides
Small alison
Arabis glabra
Tower mustard
Centaurea cyanus
Cornflower
Filago lutescens
Red-tipped cudweed
Galeopsis angustifolia
Red hemp-nettle
Pilularia globulifera
Pillwort
Potamogeton compressus
Grass-wrack pondweed
Scandix pecten-veneris
Shepherd’s needle
Scleranthus perennis
ssp. prostratusPerennial knawel
Silene gallica
Small-flowered catchfly
Sium latifolium
Great water-parsnip
Thlaspi perfoliatum
Perfoliate penny-cress
Torilis arvensis
Spreading hedge-parsley
Plans will also be produced for the following locally important species
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Populus nigra ssp. betulifolia |
Black poplar |
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Vipera berus |
Adder |
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Neomys fodiens |
Water shrew |