Natura 2000 Threats and Activities for UK Protected Sites

December 2015 data on threats, pressures, and positive activities for UK Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas. The dataset is derived from the UK-wide Standard Data Form submitted to the EU Commission and contains one row for each combination of individual Natura 2000 site and TPA category. It was produced by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

Use Cases

• Assess conservation status and pressures based on the standardized TPA categories.
• Monitor policy compliance and reporting for EU Habitats and Birds Directives based on site-level data.
• Prioritize conservation interventions based on the recorded threats and positive activities.

Strengths

• Data is structured according to EU-level standardized TPA categories.
• Covers both Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) and Special Protection Areas (SPA).
• Represents a UK-wide collation of data that was previously unavailable for most sites.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is based on a 2015 submission; subsequent changes are not reflected.

Provenance

Source

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Collection Method

Derived from UK-wide Standard Data Form submitted to the EU Commission (Tranche 50).

Time Range

Snapshot from December 2015.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 09:45:34.593385; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (including Gibraltar).