UK SAC/SCI sites summary
Special Areas of Conservation/Sites of Community
Importance in the UK as
at 14 September 2011
There are a total 638 designated SACs, SCIs
or cSACs in the United Kingdom (excluding
Gibraltar).
| |
Special Area of
Conservation (SAC)1
|
Sites of Community
Importance (SCI)2
|
Candidate SACs
(cSACs)3
|
| Country |
No. |
Area (ha) |
No. |
Area (ha) |
No. |
Area (ha) |
| England |
230 |
845 525 |
1 |
375 |
8 |
189 061 |
| England/Scotland |
3 |
112 493 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| England/Wales |
7 |
95 072 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| England/Offshore |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
231 394 |
| Northern Ireland |
53 |
66 357 |
1 |
294 |
1 |
966 |
| Scotland |
236 |
915 700 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
11511 |
| Wales |
85 |
590 865 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| UK Offshore Waters |
0 |
0 |
5 |
268 585 |
5 |
2 212 177 |
|
UK total |
614 |
2 626 012 |
7 |
269 254 |
17 |
2 645 109 |
| Gibraltar |
0 |
0 |
2 |
5 687 |
0 |
0 |
(Site area figures have been calculated
using GIS and rounded to the nearest whole hectare. Please note
that site area figures for each country relate to both the
terrestrial and inshore domain).
Explanation of site status:
- Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) are sites
that have been adopted by the European Commission and formally
designated by the government of each country in whose territory the
site lies.
- Sites of Community Importance (SCIs) are sites
that have been adopted by the European Commission but not yet
formally designated by the government of each country.
- Candidate SACs (cSACs) are sites that have
been submitted to the European Commission, but not yet formally
adopted.
- Draft SACs (dSACs) are areas that have
been formally advised to UK government as suitable for selection as
SACs, but have not been formally approved by government as sites
for public consultation. This website does not provide
information on terrestrial / inshore dSACs,
although further information on JNCC’s work on the
identification of offshore draft SACs is available.”
Where an extension to a designated SAC or SCI is pending,
different parts of the site can have different statuses - so, for
example part of the site may be SAC, and the remainder cSAC. In
this case the site would only appear once in the table, with the
whole site shown as SAC.