Catalogue description Department of the Environment and successors: Rural Affairs Directorate and Predecessors; Wildlife Registered files (WLF) Series

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Reference: AT 85
Title: Department of the Environment and successors: Rural Affairs Directorate and Predecessors; Wildlife Registered files (WLF) Series
Description:

Wildlife (WLF) files are concerned with wildlife conservation, sponsorship of voluntary conservation bodies, approval of import/export licences for flora and fauna, legislation concerning the protection of wildlife and the policing of the legislation recommended by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES).
Date: 1987-1990
Arrangement:

The files will be presented in former reference order thereby reflecting their original administrative order.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: WLF
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Rural Affairs Directorate, 1979-1994

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Wildlife Countryside Directorate, 1997-2001

Department of the Environment, Wildlife and Countryside Directorate, 1994-1997
Physical description: 3 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2012 Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Custodial history: Until 1997 these files remained with the Department of the Environment; from 1997 to 2001, they were with the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions and from 2001 to the present they were with the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.
Accumulation dates: 1975 to present.
Selection and destruction information: These files were selected on the basis they reflect the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK, as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisation outside its own formal boundaries (2.2.2.1 of PRO's acquisition policy).
Accruals: Series is accruing.

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