Greater Wash potential Special Protection Area: outcome
Natural England and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee are seeking views on the proposal to create a new Special Protection Area (SPA) marine site to protect important birds.
Detail
Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are special sites designated under the EU Birds Directive to protect rare, vulnerable and migratory birds.
The proposal is to create a new Greater Wash Special Protection Area (SPA) to protect internationally important populations of overwintering:
- red-throated diver
- common scoter
- little gull
The new SPA will include and protect the ideal coastal feeding waters used by breeding populations of:
- common tern
- Sandwich tern
- little tern