Classified and Potential Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in the
UK
Special Protection Areas
in the UK as at 14 December 2009
| |
Classified
SPAs
|
Potential
SPAs*
|
| Country |
Number of sites |
site area (ha) |
Number of sites |
| England |
78 |
671 436 |
2
|
| England/Scotland |
1 |
43 637 |
0
|
| England/Wales |
2 |
37 748 |
1
|
| Northern Ireland |
16 |
113 998 |
0
|
| Scotland |
146 |
850 364 |
1
|
| Wales |
17 |
123 015 |
0
|
| United Kingdom |
260 |
1 840 198 |
4
|
* Figures exclude 2 potential SPAs which have been proposed in
the UK Territory of Gibraltar. For further information on
these sites, please contact JNCC's
.
Note these statistics exclude
12 sites
listed that have been subsumed into larger sites. These
sites (totalling 14,530 hectares) are however retained in lists of
SPAs maintained by the European Union because they have never
been formally declassified.