List of United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan species
This is a list of United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan species. Some suffer because of loss of habitat, but many are in decline following the introduction of foreign species, which out-compete the native species or carry disease.
See also the list of extinct animals of the British Isles.
This list includes the 116 species identified as requiring action plans in the Biodiversity Steering Group's report of December 1995.Mammals
- Scottish wildcat
- Bottlenose dolphin, warm and temperate seas worldwide
- European hare, northern, central, and western Europe and western Asia
- Hazel dormouse, northern Europe and Asia Minor
- European otter, Asia, Africa and Europe
- Greater horseshoe bat, Europe, Africa, South Asia and Australia
- Harbour porpoise, coastal waters in the Northern Hemisphere
- Red squirrel, Eurasia
- Water vole, Great Britain, northern and central Europe and in parts of Russia
- European hedgehog
Birds
List of UK BAP priority bird species.
- Aquatic warbler, passage migrant through UK
- Capercaillie
- Corn crake, globally threatened
- Eurasian wryneck
- Great bittern
- Grey partridge
- Red-backed shrike
- Eurasian skylark
- Slavonian grebe
- Song thrush
- Hen harrier
- Willow tit
- Marsh tit
- Corn bunting
- Common cuckoo
- Eurasian golden oriole
- Hawfinch
- House sparrow
- Eurasian tree sparrow
- European turtle dove
- Common starling
- Marsh warbler
- Red-necked phalarope
- Wood warbler
- Roseate tern
- Common nightingale
- Lesser spotted woodpecker
- Northern lapwing
- Cirl bunting
- Yellowhammer
- Western yellow wagtail
- Black-tailed godwit
- Ruff
- European herring gull
- Lesser black-backed gull
- Little tern
Reptiles
- Slow-worm, Eurasia
- Sand lizard, most of Europe and eastwards to Mongolia
- Northern or European adder, Western Europe and Asia
- Barred grass snake, England, Wales and mainland Europe
- Smooth snake, northern and central Europe, Middle East
Amphibians
- Great crested newt, Europe and parts of Asia
- Natterjack toad, Northern Europe
Fish
- Allis shad
- Pollan
- Twaite shad
- Vendace
- Gwyniad
- European eel
- Brown Trout
Insects
Ants
- Black-backed meadow ant, possibly extinct
- Black bog ant
- Narrow-headed ant
Bees
- Shrill carder bee
Beetles
- Beaulieu dung beetle, a dung beetle
- Blue ground beetle
- Bembidion argenteolum, a ground beetle
- Crucifix ground beetle, a ground beetle
- Hazel pot beetle, a leaf beetle
- Lizard weevil, probably endemic
- Orbera oculata, a longhorn beetle
- Pashford pot beetle, a leaf beetle, probably endemic and extinct
- Stag beetle
- Lough Neagh camphor beetle, a rove beetle
- Tachys edmonsi, a ground beetle, endemic
- Violet click beetle
- Tansy beetle
Butterflies and moths
- Black hairstreak
- Bright wave
- Brown hairstreak
- Chequered skipper
- Dingy skipper
- Duke of Burgundy
- Flounced chestnut
- Glanville fritillary
- Grayling
- Greenweed flat-body moth, a micro-moth
- Grey dagger
- Grizzled skipper
- Heath fritillary
- High brown fritillary
- Knot grass
- Large blue, endemic subspecies extinct, re-established from Swedish stock
- Large heath
- Lulworth skipper
- Marsh fritillary
- Netted carpet moth
- Northern brown argus
- Pearl-bordered fritillary
- Reddish buff
- Silver-spotted skipper
- Silver-studded blue
- Small blue
- Small heath
- Small mountain ringlet
- Small pearl-bordered fritillary
- Small tortoiseshell
- Speckled footman
- Wall
- White admiral
- White-letter hairstreak
- Wood white
- V-Moth
Crickets
- European mole cricket
Damselflies
- Southern damselfly
Flies
- Callicera spinolae, a hoverfly
- Golden hoverfly
- Hornet robberfly, Southern England and South & West Wales
- Manx robber fly,
Grasshoppers
- Large marsh grasshopper
Crustaceans
- White clawed crayfish
Molluscs
;Gastropods
Freshwater snails:
- Glutinous snail
- Little whirlpool ram's-horn snail
- Shining ram's-horn snail
Land snails:
- Narrow-mouthed whorl snail
- Round-mouthed whorl snail
- Geyer's whorl snail
- Desmoulin's whorl snail
- Sandbowl snail
;Bivalves
- Depressed river mussel
- Freshwater pearl mussel
- Fine-lined pea mussel
Other invertebrates
Freshwater:
Marine:
- Ivell's sea anemone, endemic and probably extinct
- Starlet sea anemone
Plants
Trees
- Common juniper
- Plymouth Pear
Flowering plants
- Creeping marshwort
- Early gentian, endemic
- Eyebrights, endemic
- Fen orchid
- Floating water-plantain
- Holly-leaved naiad
- Isle of Man cabbage, endemic
- Lady's slipper orchid
- Lundy cabbage, endemic
- Mountain scurvy-grass, probably endemic
- Norwegian mugwort
- Ribbon-leaved water plantain
- Shetland pondweed
- Shore dock
- Slender naiad
- Star fruit
- Three-lobed crowfoot
- Western ramping-fumitory, endemic
- Wild cotoneaster, probably endemic
- Yellow marsh saxifrage
- Young's helleborine orchid, endemic
Fungi
- Devil's bolete
- Sandy stilt puffball
- White stalkball
Lichens
- Elm's gyalecta
- Orange-fruited elm-lichen
- Pseudocyphellaria aurata
- Pseudocyphellaria novegica
- River jelly lichen
- Schismatomma graphidioides
- Starry breck-lichen
- *morchella
Mosses
- Cornish path-moss, endemic
- Derbyshire feather-moss, endemic
- Glaucous beard-moss
- Green shield moss
- Slender green feather-moss
- Weissia multicapsularis
Liverworts
- Atlantic lejeunea
- Marsh earwort
- Norfolk flapwort
- Petalwort
- Western rustwort
Stoneworts
- Mossy stonewort, probably extinct
