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National action plan -
Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh
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Vision statement
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This is probably the most difficult of all the wetland habitats to report on. It is a mix of other habitats, such as grassland, open water, fen and scrub. Its extent has been estimated to different degrees of accuracy in each country (at least one still doubts whether it has any), and the manner in which it is used by birds differs also. It is important to develop indices of quality that take all the component interests on board - invertebrates, birds, aquatic macrophytes, wetgrassland and fen plant species. It is particularly vulnerable to sea level rise and will be affected by the way floodplains are managed. Like other wetlands, it is important to develop a quick and reasonably accurate way of recording the extent and quality, such as from satellite imagery.
While it has been difficult to find successes to report on, the RSPB has purchase a few hundred hectares of land for the future creation of this habitat. It is likely that initiatives such as the Great Fen Project will also give rise to much C&FPGM.
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Latest UK status
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| Value |
Units |
Accuracy of estimate |
Date assessed |
Comments |
| 230882 |
Hectares |
Partial survey |
2008 |
As in 2005, a very unreliable estimate - still problems of definition and methods of estimating extent. |
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More status information including Country values >
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Targets
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UK Status |
Assessment date |
| T1 |
Maintain the extent of the existing resource of C&FPGM habitat with no net loss. (In particular, ensure that grazing marsh of similar quality is created to landward of flood defences that have been abandoned or breached as sea level rises, by mapping where compensatory habitat will be created in Shoreline Management Plans and other plans set out by statutory agencies). |
Unknown |
2008 |
| T2 |
Maintain the condition of C&FPGM habitat where already favourable and establish by 2010, management to secure favourable condition for all areas of grazing marsh currently judged as unfavourable. The target condition for all such areas should be favourable or unfavourable recovering by 2020. |
Some progress (behind schedule) |
2008 |
| T3 |
Restore and improve 25,000 ha of relict habitat that does not qualify as C&FPGM habitat by 2020. (e.g. dry C&FPGM with inappropriate hydrological regime, agriculturally improved sites etc by implementing appropriate management at all sites). |
Some progress (ahead of schedule) |
2008 |
| T4 |
Re-establish 3,200 ha of C&FPGM of wildlife value from appropriate land sources (e.g. arable land) by 2020 (which is capable of supporting a diverse range of invertebrates, mammals and breeding waders). |
Some progress (ahead of schedule) |
2008 |
| T5 |
Establish 8 new landscape scale wetland complexes by 2020, at least 1 in each country in which C&FPGM is a major component along other wetland types. This cross-refers to targets in the uplands, lowland raised bog, wet woodlands, fens and reedbed HAPs. |
Some progress (behind schedule) |
2008 |
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More target information including country values and progress reports >
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Work programme
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No work plan actions have been linked to this national plan.
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