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Isles of Scilly Special Protection Area extension: comment on proposals

From:
Natural England
Published
26 February 2019

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Summary

Natural England is seeking views on the proposal to extend the Isles of Scilly Special Protection Area (SPA) to protect important birds.

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Consultation description

Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are special sites designated under the EU Birds Directive to protect rare, vulnerable and migratory birds.

This site already protects internationally important populations of:

  • storm petrel
  • lesser black-backed gull

The proposal for the Isles of Scilly is to extend the SPA to protect internationally important breeding populations of:

  • European shag
  • great black-backed gull
Published 26 February 2019

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