Dragonflies
EDM number 9 in 2008-09, proposed by Bob Russell on 03/12/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Nature conservation.
That this House registers its deep concern at the serious threat to dragonflies as a result of changes in farming techniques and climate change, with some species facing extinction; notes that a third of Great Britain's 39 species of dragonfly and the closely related damselfly are declining; welcomes the launch by the British Dragonfly Society of a five-year campaign to protect the creatures and track their movements, including the establishment of a dragonfly atlas; and calls on the Government to promote cross-departmental policies to assist the British Dragonfly Society in its objectives of safeguarding the nation's dragonflies.
This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
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