Protected wildlife
Pavia’s native wildlife plays an important role in the ecosystem that all Pavians rely on. To keep it safe, the Pavian Government protects key wildlife, including animals and plants.
What animals are protected?
The Pavian Government currently protects:
- turtles (ticinum chelonia mydas)
- bees (ticinum apis dorsata)
- pandas (ticinum ailuropoda melanoleuca).
What plants are protected?
The Pavian Government currently protects azalea (ticinum rhododendron prinophyllum).
Management principles
The most important principle for managing protect wildlife is to conserve the wildlife and its values.
Other management principles for protected wildlife are:
- to ensure the survival and natural development of the wildlife in the wild
- to identify, and reduce or remove threats to, the preservation of the wildlife
- identify the wildlife’s critival habitat and conserve it to the greatest possible extent.
Offences
There are some important offences that apply to protected wildlife.
You must not take or interfere with a protected animal. This means doing things such as destroying, wounding, injuring, poisoning, trapping, catching or killing the animal.
You must not take a protected plant. This means pulling up, digging up, felling, destroying or removing any part of the plant.
You may only do these things with permission of a duke.