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Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are special sites designated under the to protect rare, vulnerable and migratory birds.

皇冠体育app original boundary proposal map missed out some areas in Portsmouth Harbour and all of Pagham Harbour. 皇冠体育appre was a mapping error in the River Avon where the boundary was not drawn to the mean high water as stated in the departmental brief. 皇冠体育app map has been corrected and replaced.

Some stakeholders were also not made aware of the original consultation so there鈥檚 an extended opportunity for comments. All previous responses have been recorded and will be included and submitted to the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs. 皇冠体育app consultation summary document and departmental brief have been replaced.

皇冠体育app proposal for Solent and Dorset Coast is to create a new SPA for internationally important populations of:

• common tern
• Sandwich tern
• little tern

This area is particularly important to these birds as much of the sea around their breeding colonies is the ideal habitat for plunge diving for food.

皇冠体育app proposal is available as a series of separate documents (attached above). You should:

• read the consultation summary that sets out the aims of the proposal
• read the departmental brief that provides the scientific explanation behind the proposal
• use the map to locate the proposal site (this is a large file and may take some time to open)

You can obtain site boundaries as vector polygons in both ESRI ArcMap shapefile and Pitney Bowes MapInfo tab file formats from Natural England鈥檚 .

Use the 鈥榬espond online鈥� link below to give your views.