JNCC Travelling with pets You can enter or return to the UK with your pet cat, dog or ferret without quarantine if you follow certain rules. The rules for entering the UK are the same for other EU countries. You’re responsible for any fees or charges if you don’t follow the pet travel rules. What you need to do depends on whether you’re coming from: Your pet has to travel within 5 days of you, or someone else you’ve authorised (this must be in writing). If no one can travel within 5 days of your pet, you must follow different rules. You may need additional information or documents to enter some countries with your pet - check with the country you’re travelling to. Travelling with more than 5 pets You can’t travel with more than 5 pets unless you’re attending or training for a competition, show, sporting event. All your pets must: be attending the event or training be over 6 months old meet the pet travel rules Other types of pet Pet rabbits and rodents from countries outside the EU must spend 4 months in quarantine.
Biology Online Special Protection Areas (SPAs) Background Classification of SPAs In the UK, the first SPAs were identified and classified in the early to mid 1980s. Classification has since progressed and a regularly updated UK SPA Summary Table provides an overview of both the number of classified SPAs and those approved by Government that are currently in the process of being classified (these are known as potential SPAs, or pSPAs). A full list of UK SPAs is also available, which gives the site name, site code, area, and location and its classification status. The Birds Directive provides no formal criteria for selecting SPAs, so the JNCC, on behalf of the statutory country conservation agencies and government, published SPA Selection Guidelines for use in the UK. The boundary of each classified SPA is mapped digitally. The European Commission tracks progress in classification of SPAs across the European Union by analysing the data submitted to it by Member States in the Natura 2000 Standard Data Form. Review of the UK SPA Network
Tree of Life Web Project The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny). Each page contains information about a particular group, e.g., salamanders, segmented worms, phlox flowers, tyrannosaurs, euglenids, Heliconius butterflies, club fungi, or the vampire squid. ToL pages are linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all Life on Earth and moving out along diverging branches to individual species, the structure of the ToL project thus illustrates the genetic connections between all living things.
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UK BAP The UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP) was published back in 1994, and was the UK Government’s response to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which the UK signed up to in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. The UK was the first country to produce a national biodiversity action plan, and the UK BAP described the biological resources of the UK and provided detailed plans for conservation of these resources. Action plans for the most threatened species and habitats were set out to aid recovery, and national reports, produced every three- to five-years, showed how the UK BAP was contributing to the UK’s progress towards the significant reduction of biodiversity loss called for by the CBD. To support the work of the UK BAP, the UK BAP website was created by JNCC in 2001. 'Conserving Biodiversity – the UK Approach' (2007) The 'UK Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework' (July 2012) Following publication of the UK Biodiversity Framework, the UK BAP web-pages were further revised (in August 2012).
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