What is the nature 2000 law?
What is the nature 2000 law?
In practice. Natura 2000 is a network of core breeding and resting sites for rare and threatened species, and some rare natural habitat types which are protected in their own right. It stretches across all 27 EU countries, both on land and at sea.
What is a Natura 2000 area?
Natura 2000 is a European network of protected nature areas where certain species of animal and their natural habitats are protected in order to preserve biodiversity.
Is Natura 2000 effective?
The main role of the Natura 2000 network is to ensure long-term survival of Europe’s most valuable and threatened species and habitats. Our results show a minimal loss in environmental and landscape diversity (− 0.32%) in the analysed period, i.e. 1990–2012.
How many Natura 2000 sites are there?
27,312 sites
Current status. Natura 2000 protects 27,312 sites with terrestrial area 787,606 km2 (around 18 percent of land of the EU countries) and marine area 360,350 km2 in 2017, and is considered almost complete in the EU terrestrial environment.
What is a European site?
The term ‘European site’ is being used to refer to what were previously known as ‘Natura’ sites. This recognises that Special Protection Areas (SPAs) and Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) protect species and habitats shared across Europe and were originally designated under European legislation.
What are European designated sites?
What is Natura land?
The Natura 2000 Network is a network of important ecological sites across the European Union. The total land and freshwater area within the Natura network in Ireland is some 11,644km2: this includes some 2,300km2 of designated marine areas.
What is an SSSI area?
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) are those areas of land and water that we consider best represent our natural heritage in terms of their: flora – i.e. plants. fauna – i.e. animals. geology – i.e. rocks. geomorphology – i.e. landforms.
What are European protected sites?
An internationally or European protected site:
- special area of conservation ( SAC )
- special protection area ( SPA )
- Ramsar wetland.
- potential SPA , possible SAC or proposed Ramsar wetland.
Are Ramsar Sites Natura 2000 sites?
Natura 2000 is a network of nature protection areas in the territory of the European Union. It is made up of Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), Special Protection Areas (SPAs) designated respectively under the Habitats Directive and Birds Directive and also RAMSAR sites.
Can you build on a SSSI site?
Development affecting Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) and National Nature Reserves (NNRs) for planning permission. This usually also applies to developments that fall within a defined area around a SSSI. planning permission is unlikely to be granted for many developments that damage SSSIs.
Are SSSI European designation?
The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 (as amended) (the Habitats Regulations) has applied the EU Habitats Directive and Birds Directive to England. In England, these European sites are often also designated as SSSIs or a number of SSSIs joined together.