Site Specific Conservation Objectives

Site-specific conservation objectives aim to define favourable conservation condition for Habitats Directive Annex I habitats, Annex II species at a site level and the SPA special conservation interest “Wetlands and waterbirds”. This project relates to the following Annex I habitats and Annex II species at specific SAC sites and SPA special conservation interest “Wetlands and waterbirds”at specific SPA sites: — Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time (1110) — Estuaries (1130) — Mudflats and sandflats not covered by sea water at low tide (1140) — *coastal lagoons (1150) — Large shallow inlets and Bays (1160) — Reefs (1170) — Annual vegetation of drift lines (1210) — Perennial vegetation of stony banks (1220) — Vegetated sea Cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic Coasts (1230) — Salicornia and other annuals Colonising mud and sand (1310) — Atlantic salt Meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) (1330) — Mediterranean salt Meadows (Juncetalia maritimae) (1410) — Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic halophilous scrubs (Sarcocornetea fruticosi) (1420) —Embryonic shifting dunes (2110) Shifting dunes along the Shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (‘white dunes’) (2120) — *Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation (‘grey dunes’) (2130) — *decalcified fixed dunes with Empetrum nigrum (2140) — *Atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea) (2150) — Dunes with Salix repens ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariae) (2170) — Humid dune slacks (2190) — Machairs (* in Ireland) (21A0) — *Turloughs (3180) — Watercourses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation (3260) — European dry heaths (4030) — Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands (5130) — Calaminarian grasslands of the Violetalia calaminariae (6130) — *Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) (7220) — *Active raised bogs (7110) — *Limestone pavements (8240) — Submerged or partially submerged sea caves (8330) — Old sessile oak woods with Ilex and Blechnum in the British Isles (91A0) — * Woodlandog (91D0) *Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) (91E0) — *Taxus baccata woods of the British Isles (91J0) Marine Community Types — Geyer’s Whorl snail — Vertigo geyeri (1013) — Narrow-Mouthed Whorl snail — Vertigo angustior (1014) — Desmoulins Whorl snail — Vertigo moulinsiana (1016) — Freshwater Pearl Mussel — Margaritifera margaritifera (1029) — White clawed crayfish — Austropotamobius pallipes (1092) — Sea Lamprey — Petromyzon marinus (1095) — Brook Lamprey — Lampetra planeri (1096) — River Lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis (1099) — Lesser Horseshoe Bat — Rhinolophus hipposideros (1303) — Bottlenose Dolphin — Tursiops truncatus (1349) — Porpoise Harbour — Phocoena phocoena (1351) — Otter — Lutra lutra (1355) — Grey Seal — Halichoerus grypus (1364) — Common/Harbour Seal — Phoca vitulina (1365) — Petalwort — Petalophyllum ralfsii (1395) — Killarney Fern — Trichomanes speciosum (1421) — Slender Naiad — Najas Flexilis (1833) — Freshwater Pearl Mussel — Margaritifera durrovensis (1990) Friable conservation condition of a habitat is achieved when: its natural range, and area it covers within that range, is stable or increasing, and — the ecological factors that are necessary for its long-term maintenance exist and are likely to continue to exist for the foreseeable future, and — the conservation condition of its typical species is favourable Habitat mapping is used to help define the area and range parameters for conservation objectives Divinable conservation condition of a species is achieved when: population dynamics data on the species concerned indicate that it is maintaining itself on a long term basis as a viable component of its natural habitats, and — the natural range of the species neither is reduced nor likely to be reduced for the foreseeable future, and there is, and will probably continue to be, a sufficiently large habitat to maintain its populations on a long-term basis Mapping of species distribution and suitable habitat is used to help define distribution, population and range parameters for conservation objectives This is a national Dataset.