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The Farleigh Down Quarry, near Bathford. The Bath and Bradford-on-Avon Bats SAC is a Special Area of Conservation originally designated under the European Union's Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC), also known as the Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora.
These former chalk mines are used by hibernating bats and the site has been monitored over a long period for research into bat ecology. Up to 40 bats use the mines and the main species are Daubenton's, Natterer's and brown long-eared bats. [169] Edgefield Little Wood: 5.3 hectares (13 acres) [170] YES Melton Constable
Mottisfont Bats is a 196.7-hectare (486-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Winchester in Hampshire. [1] [2] It is also a Special Area of Conservation. [3] The site consists of woods around Mottisfont, which supports a population of the barbastelle bat which is considered by Natural England to be of national importance ...
The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) is a registered British charity dedicated to the conservation of bats and their habitats in the UK. BCT was founded in 1991 and is the only national organisation solely devoted to bats. [1]
Natural England website Sylvan House Barn ( grid reference SO534023 ) is a 0.005-hectare (0.012-acre) stone built barn near the village of St Briavels , in the Forest of Dean , Gloucestershire . Because of its breeding bats, the site was notified as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1995.
Section 40 of The Natural Environment and Rural Communities (NERC) Act 2006 places a legal obligation on public bodies in England to have regard to particular living organisms and types of habitat which are of the greatest conservation importance whilst carrying out their functions, whilst also having a general regard for protecting all biodiversity.
Box Mine (grid reference) is a 56.6 ha (139.9 acres) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, near the village of Box in Wiltshire, England, notified in 1991. The site forms part of the Bath and Bradford-on-Avon Bats Special Area of Conservation .
NNRs are managed on behalf of the nation, many by Natural England itself, but also by non-governmental organisations, including the members of The Wildlife Trusts partnership, the National Trust, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. There are 221 NNRs in England covering 1,100 square kilometres (420 square miles). [1]