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.