Editing Hyacinthoides non-scripta (section)

==Protection==
''Hyacinthoides non-scripta'' is not protected under [[international law]], such as [[CITES]] or the EU [[Habitats Directive]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://your.caerphilly.gov.uk/countryside/sites/your.caerphilly.gov.uk.countryside/files/pdf/actionplan/vol2-10-bluebell.pdf |title=Bluebell ''Hyacinthoides non-scripta'' species action plan |publisher=[[Caerphilly County Borough Council]] |access-date=March 29, 2012}}</ref>

In the [[United Kingdom]], ''H.&nbsp;non-scripta'' is a protected species under the [[Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981]]. Landowners are prohibited from removing common bluebells on their land for sale and it is a criminal offence to remove the bulbs of wild common bluebells.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.croxteth.liverpool.gov.uk/news/2007/blue.asp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805050351/http://www.croxteth.liverpool.gov.uk/news/2007/blue.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-08-05 |title=Bluebells at Croxteth |publisher=[[Liverpool City Council]] |date=April 2007 |access-date=April 1, 2012 }}</ref> This legislation was strengthened in 1998 under Schedule 8 of the Act making any trade in wild common bluebell bulbs or seeds an offence, punishable by fines of up to £5,000 per bulb.<ref name="Kew">{{cite web |url=http://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Hyacinthoides-non-scripta.htm |publisher=[[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]] |title=''Hyacinthoides non-scripta'' (bluebell) |author1=Steve Davis |author2=Anna Trias-Blasi |access-date=March 25, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323131916/http://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Hyacinthoides-non-scripta.htm |archive-date=March 23, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="BBC240807">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6962312.stm |work=[[BBC News]] |title=Men fined for bluebell bulbs sale |date=August 24, 2007 |access-date=July 14, 2012}}</ref> The species is not protected in the [[Isle of Man]] or the [[Republic of Ireland]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thewildflowersociety.com/wfs_new_pages/1f_countryside_act.htm |title=Republic of Ireland |publisher=[[Botanical Society of the British Isles]] |access-date=March 28, 2012 |archive-date=January 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115075846/https://www.thewildflowersociety.com/wfs_new_pages/1f_countryside_act.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In France, ''H.&nbsp;non-scripta'' is largely confined to the northern half of the country.<ref name="INPN">{{cite web |url=http://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/103057 |title=''Hyacinthoides non-scripta'' (L.) Chouard ex Rothm., 1944: Jacinthe sauvage, Jacinthe des bois (Français) |work=Inventaire national du Patrimoine naturel |language=fr |publisher=[[Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle]] |access-date=March 28, 2012}}</ref> It is not legally protected at the national level, but it is protected in many of the ''{{lang|fr|[[Departments of France|départements]]}}'' towards the edge of its range ([[Corrèze]], [[Loiret]], [[Gironde]], [[Lot-et-Garonne]], [[Dordogne]], [[Cher (department)|Cher]], [[Eure-et-Loir]], [[Indre-et-Loire]] and [[Loir-et-Cher]]).<ref name="INPN"/> In [[Wallonia]], ''H.&nbsp;non-scripta'' is protected under ''{{lang|fr|Annexe VII}}'' of the ''{{lang|fr|Loi sur la conservation de la nature}}''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://observatoire.biodiversite.wallonie.be/especes/flore/LR2010/fiche2.aspx?id=458 |title=''Hyacinthoides non-scripta'' (L.) Chouard ex Rothm., jacinthe des bois |access-date=April 6, 2012 |work=La biodiversité en Wallonie |language=fr}}</ref>