'It’s quite sad. Even though we’ve got this list, it hasn’t really worked.'
Northern Ireland’s list of ‘under threat, increasingly rare and important' species has ‘sadly’ risen from 481 to 594 over the past 12 years.
Priority species lists are required under the WANE Act 2011 and are supposed to be used for “public bodies to take steps to further the conservation of such priority species and habitats, and to promote others to take such action”. Annika says the biggest threats to wildlife and other species in Northern Ireland stem from land-use change like agricultural intensification which she blames “perverse policies” and not farmers for as well as pollution, emissions, nitrates, fertilisers and the climate crisis.
“We need to have really clear targets... [and] we absolutely need legally binding targets. Public bodies then need to have a duty to report - a bit like they have to do with greenhouse gas emissions now. "Unfortunately, this extended list of priority species serves only to confirm what we know already. Nature in Northern Ireland is in crisis. We are languishing 229th worst out of 240 countries for the amount of nature it has left, 25% of bird species are at risk from extinction, 97% wildflower meadows are gone, 36% of the features in NI’s Areas of Special Scientific Interest are in unfavourable condition, and just 1 out of 21 lakes are in good quality.
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