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UK conservation goals insufficient to save ants and bees, says expert (www.theguardian.com)

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UK conservation goals insufficient to save ants and bees, says expert

Science committee chair calls for monitored species to include groups such as moths, lice and hymenoptera Guardian staff Sat 8 Feb 2025 07.00 GMT

The UK’s targets to stop the destruction of the natural world are so inadequate that they could be met even if all the country’s bees, wasps, ants and moths were to go extinct, the government has been warned.

Natural England’s red list and the government’s biodiversity indicators are used to measure changes in species abundance and as the baseline measures for targets to halt species extinction.

However, the government has admitted the lists have critical gaps as they do not account for large groups such as moths, lice and hymenoptera (bees, wasps, and ants).

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