Classified and Potential Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in the
UK
Special Protection Areas
in the UK as at 14 September 2011
| |
Classified
SPAs
|
Potential
SPAs3
|
| Country |
Number of sites1 |
Site area (ha)2 |
Number of sites |
| England |
80 |
1 052 275 |
1
|
| England/Scotland |
1 |
43 637 |
0
|
| England/Wales |
3 |
209 247 |
0
|
| Northern Ireland |
16 |
114 052 |
0
|
| Scotland |
152 |
1 205 988 |
1
|
| Wales |
17 |
123 058 |
0
|
| United Kingdom |
269 |
2 748 257 |
2
|
1 Note these statistics
exclude
12
sites listed that have been subsumed into larger sites.
These sites (totalling 14,530 hectares) are however retained in
lists of SPAs maintained by the European Union because they
have never been formally declassified.
2 Note
these figures have been calculated from GIS to allow for
overlapping SPAs such as the Cairngorms Massif in Scotland. There
may therefore be slight discrepancies between these and the
equivalent figures from previous tranches which were calculated
from the SPA data forms.
2Note site area figures for each
country relate to both the terrestrial and inshore domain.
3 Figures exclude 2 potential
SPAs which have been proposed in the UK Territory of
Gibraltar. For further information on these sites, please
contact JNCC's
.