SSSIs may be divided into management units, with some SSSI areas including units that are notified for both biological and geological interest.

Biological SSSIs may be selected for various reasons, governed by published SSSI Selection Guidelines.

The appropriate conservation body sends all SSSI owners and occupiers a statement of what the ideal management should be ( there may be grants available to help fund management ).

SPAs may extend below low tide into the sea, and for these areas SSSI notification is not possible.

An LNR can also be an SSSI ( Site of Special Scientific Interest ), but often is not, or may have other designations ( although an LNR cannot also be a National Nature Reserve ).

Protection is not necessarily absolute — generally it requires the SSSI interest to be considered properly against other factors.

They are then required to consult the appropriate conservation body over planning applications which might affect the interest of an SSSI ( such a development might not be within or even close to the SSSI itself ).

Note that some developments might be neutral or beneficial, even if they are within the SSSI itself — the critical point is whether they harm the interest features.

The Forth shoreline is an SSSI both on account of its geology and its biological habitats, such as its mudflats which support numerous species of sea birds, many of which are to be seen and heard in and around North Queensferry.

Situated in the Lower Aire Valley, and forming part of Fairburn & Newton Ings SSSI, RSPB Fairburn Ings is a Local Nature Reserve ( LNR ), with a focus mainly on wildfowl and waders, although many other birds can be seen.

High levels of suspended silt and algae are reducing water quality .” It would be a substantial setback if the Pond lost its protective SSSI status.

SSSI status that the inflow of silt is significantly reduced before measures can be taken to address what can be done to remove the accumulated volumes.

North-west of the town centre lies the Wren's Nest Nature Reserve, the first British nature reserve in an urban area and a site of special scientific interest ( SSSI ), considered to be one of the most notable geological locations in the British Isles.

Even cutting of scrub to stop invasion of the grass lands to retain its SSSI condition has to be carried out in an armoured mine-clearing tractor fitted with cutting flails that pass over the surface ( not into it as with mine clearance ) and if as often happens in dry summers, it catches fire, it has to be left to burn out ( often live shells near the surface will explode ) and the unit causing the fire has to stay and provide fire watchers to ensure the fire does not spread outside the impact area.

The road is set be built in low lying marsh land, which is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ).

Within this SSSI, Otters Lutra lutra can sometimes be seen.

It has been found to be connected to Priddy Green Sink and forms part of the Priddy Caves Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ).

The Wren's Nest is a site of special scientific interest ( SSSI ), considered to be one of the most notable geological locations in the British Isles.

The decision to notify an SSSI is made by the official nature conservation body ( the appropriate conservation body ) for that part of the United Kingdom: Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Natural England, Scottish Natural Heritage or the Countryside Council for Wales.

Amendments were made to SSSI documentation, notification periods and maintenance of registers ( Legislation. gov. uk, 2010 ).

JNCC made responsible for producing guidelines for SSSI selection.

Specific penalties are applied, consideration of profit gained from offence is considered and often added to fines, application for a formal restoration order is made making the offender responsible for restoration of SSSI ( at offender's expense ).

A number of public consultations were made throughout 2007 and although efforts were made to limit environmental damage the scheme would cause disruption to three designated ecological areas and a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) at Gernon Bushes.

In practice, there is a standard list of OLDs which is almost the same for each SSSI — the list for an SSSI will only omit activities impossible on the particular SSSI ( such as fishing where there is no water ), and things requiring planning permission ( which are covered by the local planning authority consultation process ).

This meant that damaging activities such as fly-tipping, intensive bait-digging or trail biking on an SSSI were only prevented if done ( or permitted ) by the owner or occupier — not if done by trespassers or under public rights.

* SSSI Citation Search website article to find SSSIs based on contents of the citation-useful for locating species.

Because of the presence of rare bats, it is also on a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) and a candidate for Special Area of Conservation ( SAC ) European Union protective status.

Redgrave and Lopham Fen is a National Nature Reserve, SSSI, Ramsar Site and Natura 2000 site situated on the border between Norfolk and Suffolk, in England, UK.

The 500 acre ( 2. 0 km² ) reserve is situated one mile east of Llanelli and five miles ( 8 km ) north of Swansea in south Wales, on the eastern side of Carmarthen Bay, and part of the Burry Inlet estuary which is an SSSI ( Site of Special Scientific Interest ), an SPA ( Special Protection Area ), and a Ramsar Site.

To the south of the town in Ridgewood the Uckfield Millennium Green is present on a site of disused clay pits ( now a SSSI )

* Intentionally or recklessly damaging, destroying, obscuring or taking down a site notice put up on land within an SSSI.

North Queensferry is bounded by two sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ), one being the shoreline of the Firth of Forth, an SSSI for its entire extent on both north and south shores, and the other the Carlingnose Point Nature Reserve.

The site's principal interest and the reason for its designation as an SSSI is the presence of a population of the True Service-tree ( Sorbus domestica ) growing on the cliffs.

The Upper Fowey SSSI is a floodplain on the southern slopes of Bodmin Moor and is designated for its wet heath vegetation and herbaceous valley-floor mire communities.

* SSSI boundary at English Nature's " Nature on the Map " website

It is situated within Pamber civil parish and backs on to Pamber Forest, a SSSI and remnant of the much larger ancient Royal Forest of Pamber.

There are two nature reserves near the town, both of which are located on the Duddon Estuary ; an internationally important area for wildlife and designated a ' Site of Special Scientific Interest ' or SSSI.

This vegetation type is found elsewhere only on Porton Down SSSI and on the Brecklands.

Four small SSSIs at Harbour Cove, Rock Dunes, Trebetherick Point and Pentire Peninsula are on the estuary, while the River Camel Valley and Tributaries SSSI covers much of the Camel Valley between Egloshayle and Blisland, and then extends in several further sections of varying size right up to its source.

In addition there is also an SSSI at Amble Marshes on the River Amble which flows into the Camel Estuary between Wadebridge and Rock.

* The Wilderness SSSI, Isle of Wight, a site of special scientific interest on the Isle of Wight

The rock strata date from the Prídolí Epoch of the Silurian ; the exceptional exposure here and on the adjoining Albion Sands have resulted in the location's inclusion in the Geological Conservation Review as a candidate for protection as a geological site of special scientific interest ( SSSI ).