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Mapping BAP Habitats Many of the original BAP habitats have been mapped by ERCCIS based on aerial photographic data, giving us a rough indication of where the BAP habitats occur and approximately how much of the habitat is found in Cornwall. Without this information it is very difficult to conserve or even maintain the habitat. The area of the new BAP habitats, designated in 2007, that exists in Cornwall will need to be calculated before we can set habitat maintenance targets for the county. The main areas of degraded habitat highlight where conservation efforts should be focused. The new BAP habitats and the habitats which are currently not mapped for Cornwall include: • Traditional Orchards • Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland • Wood-Pasture and Parkland • Standing Open Water: Oligotrophic and Dystrophic Lakes Mesotrophic Lakes Eutrophic Standing Waters • Ponds • Rivers • Calaminarian Grasslands • Open Mosaic Habitats on Previously Developed Land • Blue Mussel Beds • Estuarine Rocky Habitats • Fragile Sponge and Anthozoan Communities on Subtidal Rocky Habitats • Intertidal Underboulder Communities • Sabellaria Spinulosa Reefs • Seagrass Beds • Sheltered Muddy Gravels • Tide-swept Channels • Subtidal Sands and Gravels • Maerl Beds The lead organisation to take this work ahead would be ERCCIS. This would primarily be a desk based study using aerial photos and other GIS layers available from partners. Some ground truthing surveys would also be needed. Photo by Cornwall Council Page 25
Marine Atlas This broad project will map a large majority of the marine BAP species. This will be a new desk based project which should follow on from the Finding Sanctuary 15 process and will help to raise the profile of the marine environment in Cornwall. This will ensure that all the data gathered by Finding Sanctuary for the Marine Conservation Zone process is passed to ERCCIS and therefore useable by all conservation partners. By having a distribution atlas of habitats and species there will be greater knowledge of how climate change will have an anticipated impact. Once this is established then adaptation principles can be put into practice Can be used for education, awareness raising and within the various industries that use the sea, i.e. fisheries and recreational The project and potential funding is at the 'wish list' stage, Lead organisations would be ERCCIS, Cornwall Wildlife Trust, Natural England and Finding Sanctuary Key habitats: • Seagrass Beds • Maerl Beds • Blue Mussel Beds • Sabellaria Spinulosa Reefs • Sabellaria Alveolata Reefs • Fragile Sponge and Anthozoan Communities on Subtidal Rocky Habitats Key species: • Coral maerl • Common maerl • Fan mussel • Stalked jellyfish • Native oyster • Pink seafan • Sea-fan anemone • Sunset cup coral • Undulate ray 15 www.finding-sanctuary.org Pink sea fan. Photo by Chris Bunney Page 26
Page 1 and 2: Cornwall’s Biodiversity Action Pl
Page 3 and 4: Contents Introduction 2 Background
Page 5 and 6: Introduction It is perhaps fitting
Page 7 and 8: Landscape Scale/Ecosystem approach
Page 9 and 10: Habitat targets Broad Habitat Acid
Page 11 and 12: BAP Volume 4: Priority Project List
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Page 17 and 18: China Clay Area The aim of this are
Page 19 and 20: Cornwall’s Super Green Spine (SGS
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