High brown Fritillary butterfly – Once widespread it is now reduced to around 50 sites and threatened with extinction; Great Crested Newt – a sharp decline with only around 75,000 existing across the country; Hen Harrier – One of Britain’s most threatened birds of prey with only around 600 breeding pairs left; Hazel Dormouse – declined by one third in recent years and it is not extinct in 17 counties; Barbastelle Bat – widespread decline and fewer than 5,000 remaining; Ringed plover – only 5,600 breeding pairs remaining; Water vole – populations have dropped by 90 per cent in recent years; Hedeghogs – Declined by 97 per cent since the 1950s and now fewer than one million exist; Garden tiger month – Once widespread in Britain’s gardens populations have dropped 93 per cent in last 40 years; Ocean quahog – Mollusc which can live for 500 years at the bottom of the sea increasingly threatened.
