Annex 1.  Adverse Activities

• Agricultural operations (e.g. ploughing, fertiliser, pesticides)
• Burning (e.g. in an inappropriate place, or at the wrong intensity/time)
• Development carried out under planning permission (e.g. roads, housing development)
• Dumping/spreading/storage of materials (e.g. spoil deposition or large bale silage)
• Earth science feature obscured (e.g. overgrown), or removed (e.g. fossil collecting), or modified (e.g. shape of cave entrances)
• Flood defence or coastal defence works (e.g. to control erosion)
• Forestry (including neglect such as lack of coppicing)
• Game or fisheries management (e.g. introduction of stock at too high a level, over-zealous cutting of river banks, bait digging)
• Invasive species (including bracken or scrub)
• Lack of remedial management (e.g. stopping-up drains, scrub cutting, erecting deer fences)
• Over-grazing (including deer browsing)
• Recreation/disturbance (e.g. scrambling, off-road vehicle use, recreation pressure, disturbance of fauna)
• Statutory undertaker (i.e. works carried out by a statutory body which is not required to seek planning permission, including military operations)
• Under-grazing (e.g. leading to scrub invasion or rank vegetation)
• Water management (including drainage, dredging or alterations to the water table;  could be too much water or too little)
• Water quality (e.g. siltation, water pollution (direct or diffuse), run-off, nutrient enrichment, eutrophication)
• Other (to be used if none of the above apply, and if used, more detail provided to enable consideration of whether the schema needs to be revised)