Table 4. Effect of ranking assessments when favourable and recovering condition are combined

The table shows the effect of combining favourable assessments with those which are unfavourable-recovering. This is the status that we should expect to see assuming the management that has been put in place is sustained and is successful (i.e. recovering condition is converted to favourable condition). However, time will be needed for actions taken to realise their benefit on the ground. The table is ordered, under broad feature category headings, according to the percentage achieving favourable and unfavourable-recovering conditions. Shaded rows are the same as those in Table 3 to facilitate comparison, and indicate those categories which are above the average percentage in favourable condition for all features combined (56%).

favourable rank	favourable + recovering rank	reporting category	number of assessments reported	% favourable + recovering
1	1	Reptiles	4	100.0%
16	9	Dragonflies and damselflies	41	85.4%
10	13	Aggregations of non-breeding birds	732	81.3%
30	14	Amphibians	49	79.6%
13	15	Assemblages of breeding birds	180	78.9%
18	16	Mammals	144	77.8%
12	18	Aggregations of breeding birds	760	75.9%
20	20	Other invertebrates	298	75.2%
21	26	Butterflies	91	68.1%
26	27	Flowering plants and ferns	324	67.3%
27	37	Non-flowering plants and fungi	131	59.5%
39	43	Fish	86	37.2%
		Species Total	2840	74.6%

5	6	Upland assemblages	55	89.1%
17	11	Lagoons	47	83.0%
11	12	Rocky shores, reefs and caves	46	82.6%
14	17	Sea cliffs	180	76.1%
15	19	Intertidal sands and muds	148	75.7%
23	21	Limestone pavement, inland cliffs and screes	272	73.9%
35	22	Acid grassland - lowland	174	70.1%
37	23	Calcareous grassland - lowland	625	70.1%
24	24	Blanket bogs	222	68.9%
33	25	Neutral grassland	1074	68.2%
19	28	Subtidal sandbanks	9	66.7%
32	29	Broadleaved and mixed woodland	1842	66.3%
44	30	Heathlands - lowland	374	64.4%
31	31	Fens and marshes - upland	114	64.0%
29	32	Dunes, shingle and machair	342	63.7%
25	33	Standing water	513	63.5%
22	34	Saltmarsh	146	63.0%
42	35	Lowland raised bogs	199	62.3%
34	36	Fens and marshes - lowland	789	61.2%
28	38	Coniferous woodland	56	57.1%
41	39	Calcareous grassland - upland	84	53.6%
40	40	Acid grassland - upland	56	51.8%
43	41	Heathlands - upland	195	46.2%
36	42	Montane grasslands and heaths	69	43.5%
38	44	Rivers and streams	89	37.1%
		Habitats Total	7720	65.6%

2	2	Volcanic rocks	215	95.3%
3	3	Folds, faults and rock movements	139	93.5%
4	4	Ice Age landforms and sediments	410	90.2%
7	5	Active landforms	225	89.3%
6	7	Fossils	274	87.6%
8	8	Minerals	120	85.8%
9	10	Rock sequences	859	84.5%
		Geology Total	2242	88.1%

		Grand Total^[1]	12802	71.5%

[1] Excludes Ramsar features and a few assessments which do not fit into these categories.