The Fens are home to 25% of
Britain's rarest wildlife and 13 globally rare species, according to a new
report.
Researchers from the
University of East Anglia studied over one million records collected by
scientists and amateur enthusiasts that date back to 1670.
The Fens Biodiversity Audit
details evidence of 13,474 species of plants, insects, birds, fish and mammals.
The area covered 3,800 km sq,
spanning the Fenlands of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.
Christopher Panter, an
ecologist from the school of Environmental Sciences at the University of East
Anglia and one of the authors of the audit, commented: "One of the most
surprising things was that, despite it being a very large area, most of the
area was previously unrecorded."
Continued: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/20225243
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