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Naturenet: Special Protection Areas (272 words) |
 | Under the Directive, the UK is committed to taking "the requisite measures to preserve, maintain and re-establish a sufficient diversity and areas of habitat" for "all species of naturally occurring birds in the wild state". |
| This is designed to protect wild birds, and to provide sufficient diversity of habitats for all species so as to maintain populations at an ecologically sound level. |
| Furthermore it lists birds for which hunting and sale and other activities are allowed, but otherwise affords a strong degree of protection to all birds ("reverse listing" formula). |
| ENGLISH NATURE - Facts and Figures : Designated Sites (953 words) |
| A list of 23 sites in England were proposed to Government by English Nature and consulted on in March 1995, a further 25 were consulted on by November 1997 and 82 in August 2000. |
| English Nature's Species Recovery Programme (SRP), initiated in 1991, consists of a range of partnership projects with, in phase 1, the objective of halting, and for many species reversing, the reduction of the range and numbers of plant and animal populations that are in severe decline or under threat of extinction. |
| Reintroduction of species to former sites, or their introduction to suitable alternative areas, is often undertaken to restore sustainable populations in the wild. |
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