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Classified and Potential Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in the UK

 

Special Protection Areas in the UK as at 25 September 2008
 
 
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 14 108 204
2
Scotland 144 626 780
3
Wales 17 123 007
0
United Kingdom 256 1 610 812
8
 
 
 
* 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.

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