European Directives, including the Habitats and Birds
Directives, apply to the UK Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
Gibraltar lies in the Mediterranean biogeographic region. A report
on the implementation of the Habitats Directive in Gibraltar
prepared by the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History
Society identified Annex I habitats and Annex II species and which
occur within Gibraltar (GONHS 1994).
Gibraltar currently has two candidate SACs,
covering a total area of 6230 ha. Copies of the
Natura data forms, as submitted to the European
Commission, can be downloaded from here:
Although cSACs in Gibraltar are submitted to the European
Commission via Defra in the same way as sites in the metropolitan
UK, the Government of Gibraltar is responsible for overseeing the
selection and management of sites within its territory.
Further information is available from the Government of
Gibraltar.