DRAGONFLIES

Early day motion 1445, tabled 28 April 2008 by Bob Russell (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 39 members.

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.

Signatures by party: Labour 22, Liberal Democrat 10, DUP 3, Conservative 2, Independent 1, UKIP 1.