As the Chair of Natural Devon

Appendix 2 Devon habitats of European importance (protected under European legislation

Site name / NGR	Site Area (ha)	Site significance
Beer Quarry and Caves SAC SY215892	31.1	Important hibernation site for greater horseshoe, lesser horseshoe and bechstein bats.
Blackstone Point SAC SX535462	7.38	Largest known extant population of shore dock in Devon, and one of the largest concentrations of this species on rocky sea-cliffs in south-west England.
Braunton Burrows SAC SS451348	1346.64	One of the largest dune sites in the UK and is of particular importance because it is virtually intact and still active. A large population (around 3000 thalli) of petalwort is recorded from Braunton Burrows, one of two sites selected for this species in south-west England.
Culm Grasslands SAC SS843214	768.69	Purple moor grass meadows and Northern Atlantic wet heaths. Contain the largest cluster of sites for marsh fritillary in the south-west peninsula. It is judged to be the most important location for the species in its major south-west stronghold.
Dartmoor SAC SX590864	23,165.77	Northern Atlantic wet heath, dry heath, blanket bog (the southernmost blanket bog in Europe) and old sessile oak woods with rich bryophyte and lichen assemblages. Supports southern damselfly, Atlantic salmon and otter.
Dawlish Warren SAC SX984792	58.84	Dunes support a large population of petalwort.
East Devon Pebblebed Heaths SAC SY040868	1119.94	The largest block of lowland heathland in Devon. Designated for wet heath, dry heath and southern damselfly.
Exmoor and Quantock Oakwoods SAC SS894440	1895.17	Old sessile oak woods and alluvial forests. Also designated for barbastelle and bechstein bats and otter.
Exmoor Heaths SAC SS864419	10705.87	Wet heath, dry heath, vegetated sea cliffs, blanket bog, alkaline fen and old sessile oak woods.
Lundy SAC SS136465	3064.53	Reefs, sandbanks, submerges or partially submerged sea caves. Also designated for grey seal.
Lyme Bay and Torbay candidate Marine SAC SY31583	31248	Reefs and submerged or partially submerged sea caves
Plymouth Sound and Estuaries SAC SX472506	6402.03	Sandbanks, estuaries, large shallow inlets and bays, reefs, Atlantic salt meadows, mudflats and sandflats. Designated for shore dock (one of the chief rocky-shore strongholds for shore dock on the UK mainland) and allis shad.
Prawle Point to Plymouth Sound candidate SAC lat  50.211 deg; N long 4.009 deg; W	31525	Reef habitats.
River Axe SAC SY267961	25.78	Water courses of plain to montane levels. Sea lamprey, brook lamprey and bullhead.
Sidmouth to West Bay SAC SY326912	897.3	Example of a highly unstable vegetated soft cliff coastline subject to mudslides and landslips.
South Dartmoor Woods SAC SX710701	2157.15	This complex is the most southerly of old sessile oak woods, with regionally important assemblages of lower plants and dry Lobarion communities that are unique in Western Europe.
South Devon Shore Dock SAC SX787362	341.01	Vegetated sea cliffs. An important rocky-shore site for shore dock which lies at the eastern limit of its current UK range
South Hams SAC SX942565	129.53	Dry heaths, extensive limestone grasslands, vegetated sea cliffs, caves. Holds the largest population of greater horseshoe bat in the UK
Tintagel-Marsland-Clovelly SAC SS225234	2429.84	This site represents an extensive length of largely hard coastal cliff + old sessile oak woods.

Special Protection Areas

Site name & designation	Site Area (ha)	Features of ecological significance
East Devon Heaths SPA SY040866	1119.94	European nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus (2.4% of GB breeding population, count as at 1992) Dartford warbler Sylvia undata (8% of the GB breeding population, count as at 1994)
Exe Estuary SPA (also a RAMSAR site) SX981840	2345.71	Slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus (5% of the GB population, 5 year peak mean 1984/85-1988/9) Avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta (28.3% of the GB population, 5 year peak mean 1991/92-1995/96) Dark bellied brent goose Dunlin Calidris alpina alpine (1.1% of the population in Great Britain, 5 year peak mean 1991/92-1995/96) Oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus (1.2% of the population in Great Britain, 5 year peak mean 1991/92-1995/96) Black tailed godwit, Limosa limosa islandica (7.2% of the population in Great Britain, 5 year peak mean 1991/92-1995/96) Grey plover, Pluvialis squatarola (1.1% of the population in Great Britain, 5 year peak mean 1991/92-1995/96).
Tamar Estuaries Complex SPA SX441621	1955	Over winter the area regularly supports: Avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta 15.8% of the GB breeding population 5 year peak mean 1991/92-1995/96 On passage the area regularly supports: Little egret - Egretta garzetta (Sub-Saharan Africa - breeding) at least 9.3% of the GB population Count, as at 1995

Appendix 3 BAP Priority Habitat Inventories

The following habitat inventories were created by DBRC in 2001-2003, as part of the National Biodiversity Network South West Pilot.  The habitats were mapped using County Wildlife Site survey data and aerial photographs available at the time.  Some of the inventories have been updated since they were created, but they may not include information from the most recent County Wildlife Site surveys.  This means that the information in the inventories is incomplete, and the absence of information for a particular area does not mean that there are no BAP Priority Habitats present.

       Blanket bog

       Coastal salt marsh

       Coastal vegetated shingle

       Lowland calcareous grassland

       Lowland dry acid grassland

       Lowland heathland

       Lowland meadow

       Lowland mixed deciduous woodland

       Mudflats

       Purple moor grass

       Sabellaria

       Upland heathland

       Upland mixed ashwood

       Upland oak wood

       Wet woodland

The following inventories were downloaded from the Natural England website.  DBRC is not responsible for the accuracy of these habitat inventories:

       Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh

       Coastal sand dunes

       Fens

       Lowland beech & yew woodland

       Maritime cliff and slope

       Reedbeds

       Undetermined woodland

The following inventories were created by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species.  DBRC is not responsible for the accuracy of these habitat inventories:

       Traditional orchards

Appendix 4 Methodology for the Devon species status assessment
A Devon species status assessment was carried out based on a simplified version of the method used by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) for reporting to Europe on species listed in Annexes of the European Habitats Directive (JNCC, 2008). See table below. The assessment for each species is based on available data combined with the expert judgement of those contributing to this report. The national assessment for each species is also given. National assessments are taken from the 2008 JNCC assessment¹, the 2008 UK BAP reporting round² and Birds of Conservation Concern 3, 2009³.
Devon species assessment (as per JNCC, 2008¹).

	Favourable	Unfavourable inadequate	Unfavourable bad
		Categories of ‘but improving’ or ‘and deteriorating’ can be added to Unfavourable-Inadequate and Unfavourable-Bad.
Range	Stable or increasing (since 1998), and range sufficiently large to allow long term survival of the species.*	Any other combination	Large decline since 1998
Population	Stable or increasing and population large enough to ensure the long term viability of the species in Devon.*	Any other combination	Large decline 1998
Habitat	Area and quality of habitat suitable to support a favourable (long term viable) population of the species.*	Any other combination	Area and / or quality of habitat is clearly not sufficiently large to ensure the long term survival of the species
Future Prospects	Main pressures and threats to the species not significant; species will remain viable on the long-term.*	Any other combination	Severe influence of pressures and threats to the species; very bad prospects for its future, long-term viability at risk.
Overall conservation status	Habitat or species can be expected to prosper without any change to existing management or policies.	Habitat or species require a change in management or policy but the danger of extinction is not so high.	Habitat or species is in serious danger of becoming extinct (at least locally).
	One unfavourable bad assessment = overall status is unfavourable bad. One unfavourable-Inadequate assessment combined with all favourable conclusions = unfavourable-Inadequate. An overall conclusion of Favourable is only reached where all parameters are Favourable or three parameters are Favourable, and one is Unknown. In cases where there are two or more Unknown conclusions combined with other Favourable conclusions, the overall conclusion will be Unknown.

* based on the expert judgement of those contributing to this report.

Data is assessed as - ‘Good’, based on extensive surveys, ‘Moderate’, based on partial data with some extrapolation, or ‘Poor’, based on very incomplete data or on expert judgement.

1 Devon Wildlife Trust has carried out a pilot study into the monitoring of Sabellaria alveolata reefs based on methodology developed by Countryside Council for Wales. The final report makes recommendations for how this should be adapted and rolled out to provide a monitoring programme for Devon.