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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-england-regulations-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/810",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-england-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Conservation status of species",
  "text": "(1) The conservation status of a species is the sum of the influences acting on the species concerned that may affect the long-term distribution and abundance of its populations.\n(2) The conservation status is favourable if—\n(a) the population dynamics data on the species indicate that it is maintaining itself on a long-term basis as a viable component of its natural habitat;\n(b) the natural range of the species is neither being reduced nor is likely to be reduced for the foreseeable future; and\n(c) there is, and will probably continue to be, a sufficiently large habitat to maintain its populations on a long-term basis.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/810/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:41:16.691519+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}