DRAGONFLIES

Early day motion 9, tabled 3 December 2008 by Bob Russell (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 41 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 18, Liberal Democrat 17, Conservative 3, Independent 2, Plaid Cymru 1.