UK Invertebrate Conservation

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Typhlonectes

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Thought I would start a thread on this fascinating subject:

Buglife in collaboration with Sussex Wildlife Trust have released 32 Wart Biter Crickets (Decticus verrucosus) onto a new site, marking the 7th population of this species in the UK.
Britain’s Rarest Cricket Gets a Helping Hand.

Tadpole Shrimp (Triops cancriformis) have been reintroduced onto the RSPB’s Mersehead Nature Reserve, after going extinct there in 1948. The reintroduction was carried out by the Species on the Edge Project, WWT, RSPB and Buglife as well as local ecologist Larry Griffin.
https://www.buglife.org.uk/news/just-add-water-heavy-rainfall-revives-ancient-species-on-the-scottish-solway-coast/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNd-HhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsE51ZFfw-QPchXzDsmQxM5tyhe2HO9hCgemqRt46ez-tswW8ykYVKw8Qx-0_aem_wEbZkvIMDjk2IbZbt2dkCQ

 
RZSS and RSPB have partnered up to release over 3,000 Pond Mud Snails (Omphiscola glabra) into ponds and marshes near the Threipmuir Reservoir and Bavelaw Marsh area.

RZSS first conducted a release of Pond Mud Snails into the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Red Moss of Balerno reserve in Edinburgh's Pentland hills in 2018.

The species is Nationally scare, Vulnerable in the UK Red Data Books, is a UK Biodiversity Action Plan species, and is on the Scottish Biodiversity List.

Thousands of rare snails released in Pentland Hills as part of conservation efforts
 
London Wildlife Trust have successfully reintroduced 120 Glow-worm (Lampyris noctiluca) onto Hutchinson’s Bank, Croydon. The trust were supported by the Derek Gow Consultancy, presumably acquiring the larvae from his breeding project.
Whilst this species is not protected under any legislation, studies have shown that glowing females are declining with some studies suggesting declines of 75% over 18 years in England. Populations in Scotland are fragmented and under recorded as are populations across Europe.

London Wildlife Trust
 
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