What's So Special About The Site?

The site has been selected as a candidate Special Area of Conservation for having excellent European examples of 11" features of interest" (also known as conservation features). These features are habitats and species from the lists in Appendices I and II of the Habitats Directive.  The features are:

Habitats

1. Estuaries.

2. Large shallow inlets and bays.

3. Atlantic salt meadows.

4. Salicornia and other annuals colonising mud and sand.

5. Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide.

6. Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time.

Species

1. Allis shad, Alosa alosa

2. Twaite shad, Alosa fallax

3. River Lamprey, Lampetra fluviatilis

4. Sea Lamprey, Petromyzon marinus

5. Otter, Lutra lutra