Pathway Action Plans for Invasive Non-native Species
Overview
We are seeking your views on the draft Great Britain invasive non-native species (INNS) Pathway Action Plans (PAPs).
An ‘invasive non-native species’ (INNS) is any non-native animal or plant that can spread causing damage to the environment, the economy, our health, or the way we live. Pathways are the routes and mechanisms that introduce and spread INNS. Pathway Action Plans (PAPs) are an important element of INNS prevention and risk management, and we are committed to their development in the GB Non-native Species Strategy and domestic legislation.
Defra, the Scottish Government and Welsh Government have worked with the GB Non-Native Species Secretariat, government agencies and key delivery partners to draft five PAPs:
- recreational boating;
- angling;
- horticulture;
- zoos and aquaria; and
- pets
These PAPs lay out best-practice guidance to help reduce the risk associated with these pathways. They do this by setting out key actions for Government, Arm’s Length Bodies, businesses, NGOs, recreational clubs and individuals.
Your responses will help us to consider revisions to the PAP documents to make them as comprehensive as possible.
Why your views matter
The development of the draft PAPs has already involved extensive engagement with external partners, including trade bodies and eNGOs. This provided key information on each priority pathway's risks, and how those risks may be mitigated. However, this consultation is the final stage in the PAPs development, and we want to receive further evidence on how these PAPs could be improved. Evidence provided by you is key to ensuring that these final documents are effective, and have public support and commitment to their implementation.
Defra, the Scottish Government and Welsh Government will consider the responses to the consultation and revise the PAP documents where appropriate, with the overall aim of making the PAPs as comprehensive as possible. This consultation is therefore a final step in developing the PAPs prior to publication.
Give us your views
Audiences
- Water/water Industry sector
- All Marine Users
- Angling Organisations and Trade
- Beach Users
- Business/Private Sector
- Coastal local authorities
- Coastal Management sector
- Coastal Members of Parliament
- Commercial Fisheries Organisations
- Environmental campaigners
- Environmental Groups
- Environmental Groups
- Environmental Health Officers
- Farmers
- Fisheries Producer Organisations
- Fishermen
- Fishing Focus individual recipients
- Fishing Industry
- Fishing Industry
- Horticulture Industry
- Leisure industry
- Local Authorities
- Local Authorities
- Non-Government Organisation
- Pet Carriers
- Pet Interest Groups
- Pet Owners
- Ports and Harbour Authorities and Estuaries
- Property Management
- Recreation sector
- Shellfish Cultivators
- SME businesses
- Tourism industry
- Veterinarians
- Vets
- Water suppliers
Interests
- Animals
- Biodiversity
- Circus animals
- Conservation
- Consultation
- Consultations
- DEFRA Policy
- Ecosystems services
- Local environments
- Local nature partnerships
- Marine
- National Adaptation Programme
- Natural environment
- Non-native species
- Pet Health
- Pet Ownership
- Pets
- Plants
- Policy and Delivery
- Protecting wildlife
- Sea angling
- Wildlife crime
- Zoos
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