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The Regulation 37 (formally 35 and 33) Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) feature maps provide the indicative baseline extent and status (i.e. “Definite” or “Potential” feature status and / or confidence) of SAC features at the time of site designation. These are the maps that should be used to assess potential impacts of plans and projects and for casework advice. They

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Site sponsored by JNCC, provides information on the UK Biodiversity Action Plans (BAPs) of the last 20 years (1992-2012).

Site sponsored by Defra, “use it to find out where practical action is in place to benefit important habitats and species as well as generate summaries of the data. It also offers an efficient way for you to contribute information about your own biodiversity actions.”

BIS was the first Local Record Centre in Wales and was established in 2000 covering the counties of Breconshire, Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire. It was one of 3 pilot record centres in the UK, (the others being in Cheshire and Northeast Scotland), funded by the partners and the Esmee Fairburn Trust through Wildlife Trusts UK. These pilot record centres were set up as 'nodes of the National

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“On this site you can find out about the work of the Wales Biodiversity Partnership including: national and local actions and objectives; biodiversity-related news and events; and how you can help biodiversity.”

Cofnod is one of four Local Records Centres (LRCs) in Wales and forms part of the first national network of LRCs anywhere in the UK. Our name, which means 'a record' in Welsh, was chosen to reflect the importance of observing and recording wildlife, with the creation of a record being the starting point for all the data we hold. Our task is to bring together all these individual records into a ...More

Under the Environment (Wales) Act (2016), Section 7 requires biodiversity lists to be produced. These lists include types of habitats which are of "Principle Importance" for the purpose of maintain and enhancing biodiversity in relation to Wales. This list supersedes the duty in Section 42 of the NERC Act 2006. In addition to this marine habitats can be protected under the OSPAR Convention, which

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The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Wales) Regulations 2017 are the only regulation controlling the loss of undesignated semi-natural habitats to agricultural improvement in Wales. The purpose of the Regulation is to allow agricultural projects that do not significantly affect the environment, whilst providing protection for land with significant environmental, historic or cultural

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The European nature information system, EUNIS, brings together European data from several databases and organisations into three interlinked modules on sites, species and habitat types.

The Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) has been commissioned by the Welsh Government to assess the performance of Glastir. GMEP was launched at the same time as the Glastir scheme. This provides fast policy feedback allowing for the scheme to be modified to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Click the links below to find out more about the work GMEP is undertaking within the

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NRW woodland and grassland ecologists used the Habitat Survey of Wales Phase 1 digital data; Lowland Grassland Survey of Wales Phase 2 digital data; Lowland Peatland Survey of Wales Phase 2 Features data; Calaminarian Grassland Annex 1 habitat map; Glastir Grassland Fungi data; and Chough woodland areas to identify areas of sensitivity to woodland creation. These datasets include land-cover types

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This dataset provides an account of the work on connectivity and priority mapping in Wales and provides a basis for mapping connectivity. The output of the model is a series of mapping layers, known as core, focal and local networks. Together these provide a guide to overall habitat connectivity and can be interpreted in various ways to inform biodiversity action and environmental projects in

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This is a dataset compiled of spatially-referenced survey data obtained from different intertidal communities (biotopes) in Wales. Maps include information on biotope location, target note location, access and photographs points locations. Sites are mapped once and therefore are a 'snapshot' in time. Survey methodology is based on 'Handbook for Marine Intertidal Phase 1 Biotope Mapping Survey'.

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The Invasive Non-Native Species (INNS) Portal was launched as part of the National Biodiversity Network (NBN) Atlas Wales in November 2018.

An invasive alien species (also known as an invasive non-native species) is any non-native animal or plant that has the ability to spread causing damage to the environment, the economy, our health and the way we live.  The INNS Portal includes over 300

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Local Record Centres (LRC) Wales home page

The Habitats Directive Article 17 reporting maps are a snapshot of the most up to date spatial data for features listed on the various Annexes of the Directive at the time of reporting. They represent the current known extent / location and status of features both inside and outside of SACs. Article 17 maps are reviewed and updated every 6 years as part of the Habitats Directive reporting

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The National Biodiversity Network is a collaborative partnership created to exchange biodiversity information and involves many UK wildlife conservation organisations, government, country agencies, environmental agencies, local environmental records centres and many voluntary groups.

Natural Resources Wales Species data held on the National Biodiversity Network (NBN) Gateway. This includes marine, terrestrial and freshwater species records for a variety of taxonomic groups. Data was collected to support core NRW functions including statutory and non-statutory reporting, condition monitoring and decision making.

The NBN key portal is the main route for the publishing NRW

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The England and Wales Raptor Persecution Priority Delivery Group (Raptor PPDG) are actively working together to reduce the illegal persecution of raptors (including owls) and agree that a useful way of presenting information is through the production of maps indicating the location of confirmed incidents.  Illegal pesticide poisoning data is based on chemical analysis and interpretation of

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GIS layers showing the abundance and distribution of seabirds in welsh waters. The datasets consist of the raw data showing observations of all seabirds and derived grids showing the density of flying and sitting species on a 3km grid scale and the survey coverage. The purpose of this data capture was to collate data from ESAS and WWT Consulting databases to produce combined database of birds

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South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre (SEWBReC) is the centre for the collation, management and dissemination of biodiversity data for South East Wales. Our aim is to make appropriate local biodiversity information available to all those who need it, to help ensure that decisions which affect local biodiversity are made using best available data.

This dataset holds comprehensive habitat cover data for the whole of Wales derived from a programme of field recording that was begun by the Wales Field Unit of the Nature Conservancy Council in 1979 and continued by the Countryside Council for Wales after restructuring in 1991. The purpose of this data capture was to inform site selection, casework and policy decisions. The fieldwork was

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Formed in 2009, ALERC is an association between Local Environmental Records Centres (LRCs) in Great Britain. The Association aims to provide a central voice for the views and concerns of the Records Centre community, whilst building a support-based network of knowledge and advice to meet the needs of its members.

WWBIC covers biological recording activity in an area of some 5650km2. This includes the Vice Counties of Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and all of Carmarthenshire except the small Eastern sector of the county that falls within the Brecon Beacons National Park.