Annex 1. Adverse Activities
The categories agreed for reporting purposes at a UK level are
as follows. An abbreviated form of these is used on the
graphs. The 'other' category is intended to capture instances
where an activity recorded for a feature on a site does not fit
within the schema, and thereby allows revision as
necessary.
- Agricultural operations (e.g. ploughing, fertiliser,
pesticides)
- Burning (e.g. in an inappropriate place, or at the wrong
intensity/time)
- Development carried out under planning permission (e.g. roads,
housing development)
- Dumping/spreading/storage of materials (e.g. spoil deposition
or large bale silage)
- Earth science feature obscured (e.g. overgrown), or removed
(e.g. fossil collecting), or modified (e.g. shape of cave
entrances)
- Flood defence or coastal defence works (e.g. to control
erosion)
- Forestry (including neglect such as lack of coppicing)
- Game or fisheries management (e.g. introduction of stock at too
high a level, over-zealous cutting of river banks, bait
digging)
- Invasive species (including bracken or scrub)
- Lack of remedial management (e.g. stopping-up drains, scrub
cutting, erecting deer fences)
- Over-grazing (including deer browsing)
- Recreation/disturbance (e.g. scrambling, off-road vehicle use,
recreation pressure, disturbance of fauna)
- Statutory undertaker (i.e. works carried out by a statutory
body which is not required to seek planning permission, including
military operations)
- Under-grazing (e.g. leading to scrub invasion or rank
vegetation)
- Water management (including drainage, dredging or alterations
to the water table; could be too much water or too
little)
- Water quality (e.g. siltation, water pollution (direct or
diffuse), run-off, nutrient enrichment, eutrophication)
- Other (to be used if none of the above apply, and if used, more
detail provided to enable consideration of whether the schema needs
to be revised)