European Protected Species
Listed below are the European Protected Species which may occur in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin.
Animals
Bats, Horseshoe (all species)
Bats, Typical (all speices)
Common Otter
Dormouse
Great Crested Newt
Plants
Floating-leaved Water Plantain
Killarney Fern
This is not a full version of the European Protected Species list, inlcuded above are only those species which occur in Shropshire.
Please click here for the Full Eureopean Protected Species List
Legal protection of European Protected Species
It is an offence, with certain exceptions, to:
1. deliberately capture or kill any wild animal of a European Protected Species
2. deliberately disturb any such animal
3. deliberately take or destroy eggs of any such wild animal
4. damage or destroy a breeding site or resting place of any such wild animal
5. deliberately pick, collect, cut, uproot or destroy a wild plant of a European Protected Species
6. keep, transport, sell, or exchange, or offer for sale or exchange, any dead or alive animal or plant of a European Protected Species, or any part of, or anything derived from such a wild animal or plant.
European Protected Species Licensing
Leaving European Protected Species surveys until the last minute can cost developers time and money. Defra advise to check as early as possible whether a European Protected Species is present on potential sites for development.
For most Eurpean Protected Species there is a restircted survey season and where licences are necessary there may be up to a six week delay while the application is processed.
Natural England are the European Protected Species licensing body and further information on protected species licensing can be found here on their website.