The Environmental Liability (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 No. 252

SCHEDULE 1 N.I. Damage to species and natural habitats

Conservation status of species N.I.

3.—(1) A species’ conservation status is the sum of the influences acting on the species concerned that may affect the long term distribution and abundance of its populations.

(2) The conservation status is favourable if—

(a) the population dynamics data on the species concerned indicate that it is maintaining itself on a long term basis as a viable component of its natural habitats;

(b) the natural range of the species is neither being reduced nor is likely to be reduced for the foreseeable future; and

(c) there is, and will probably continue to be, a sufficiently large habitat to maintain its populations on a long term basis.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 3 in operation at 24.7.2009, see reg. 1