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<p>The Foreign and Commonwealth Office recently funded a project led by the Royal
Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to carry out the first ever stocktake of
species in the UK’s Overseas Territories (UKOTs). The study, completed between January
2013 and March 2014, brought together all known species records and conservation assessments.
It found that there are at least 1,500 endemic species in the UKOTs and that 145 (9%)
of these have had their global conservation status assessed.</p><p> </p><p>The report
of the study’s findings, ‘The UK’s Wildlife Overseas: A stocktake of nature in our
Overseas Territories’, was published on 5 June 2014 and can be found on the RSPB’s
website at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/whatwedo/projects/details.aspx?id=369443"
target="_blank">www.rspb.org.uk/whatwedo/projects/details.aspx?id=369443</a></p><p>
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