dataset · United Kingdom

Special Areas for Conservation (SAC) basic site details

Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) are strictly protected sites designated under the EC Habitats Directive. This dataset is derived from the UK wide data submitted to the EU Commmission in cumulative batches known as Tranches. A substantial update to these data was done as part of the Standard Data Form updating exercise on 22 December 2015 (Tranche 50) . It contains basic site details for each and every SAC - there is one row in the dataset for each individual site. The data here are for the

Source details

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Evidence quality: 37

Listed in data.gov.uk public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

• http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/6a0b00dd-e028-426f-99a8-35a9efceaae2-Natura2000-tranche50-SACbasic.csv
• https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/1a32754f-64b8-4e47-a704-1349c1418919/special-areas-for-conservation-sac-basic-site-details

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