Species Action List
The following species will be the focus of new action over five years
from 2007. By clicking on the relevant species image, you will be taken
to a web page which gives background information on the species
concerned, links to useful web pages of other organisations and other information.
For each species, detailed, five year implementation plans are
currently being drafted in consultation with our partners. These will also be
published on the species web pages during 2008 as they become ready.
For further information on each species, contact the relevant SNH
Species Lead.
|
Species name |
Taxon |
 |
Black grouse/Tetrao tetrix |
Vertebrate |
 |
Capercaillie/Tetrao urogallus |
Vertebrate |
 |
Great crested newt/Triturus cristatus |
Vertebrate |
 |
Greenland white-fronted goose/Anser albifrons flavirostris |
Vertebrate |
 |
Red squirrel/Sciurus vulgaris |
Vertebrate |
 |
Scottish wildcat/Felis silvestris |
Vertebrate |
 |
Vendace/Coregonus albula |
Vertebrate |
 |
Water vole/Arvicola terrestris |
Vertebrate |
 |
European beaver/Castor fiber |
Vertebrate – formerly native |
 |
White-tailed eagle/Haliaeetus albicilla |
Vertebrate – formerly native |
 |
Freshwater pearl mussel/Margaritifera margaritifera |
Invertebrate |
 |
Great yellow bumblebee/Bombus distinguendus |
Invertebrate |
 |
Marsh fritillary butterfly/Euphydryas aurinia |
Invertebrate |
 |
Pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly/Boloria euphrosyne |
Invertebrate |
 |
Pine hoverfly/Blera fallax |
Invertebrate |
 |
Slender Scotch burnet moth/Zygaena loti scotica |
Invertebrate |
 |
Bird’s nest stonewort/Tolypella nidifica |
Plant |
 |
Intermediate wintergreen/Pyrola media |
Plant |
 |
Lesser butterfly orchid/Platanthera bifolia |
Plant |
 |
Small cow-wheat/Melampyrum sylvaticum |
Plant |
 |
Woolly willow/Salix lanata |
Plant |
 |
Hazel gloves/Hypocreopsis rhododendri |
Fungus |
 |
American mink/Mustela vison |
Vertebrate |
 |
Grey squirrel (wrt red squirrel only)/Sciurus carolinensis |
Vertebrate |
 |
North American signal crayfish/Pacifastacus leniusculus |
Invertebrate |
 |
New Zealand pygmyweed/Crassula helmsii |
Plant |
 |
Rhododendron ponticum & hybrids/Rhododendron ponticum & its hybrids |
Plant |
 |
Wireweed/Sargassum muticum |
Plant |
 |
Hen harrier/Circus cyaneus |
Vertebrate |
 |
Native deer (red deer + roe deer)/Cervus elaphus + Capreolus capreolus |
Vertebrate |
 |
Native oyster/Ostrea edulis |
Invertebrate |