List of Special Areas of Conservation in Northern Ireland

Special Areas of Conservation in Northern Ireland are part of the European Union's Natura 2000 network of sites with special flora or fauna.

Northern Ireland has 43 SACs:

  • Ballynahone Bog
  • Banagher Glen
  • Bann Estuary
  • Binevenagh
  • Black Bog
  • Breen Wood
  • Carn/Glenshane Pass
  • Cladagh (Swanlinbar) River
  • Cuilcagh Mountains
  • Garry Bog
  • Garron Plateau
  • Magilligan
  • Main Valley Bogs
  • Moneygal Bog
  • Montiaghs Moss
  • North Antrim Coast
  • Owenkillew River
  • Peatlands Park
  • Rathlin Island
  • Rea's Wood & Farr's Bay
  • Strangford Lough
  • Upper Ballinderry River
  • Upper Lough Erne
  • Wolf Island Bog

See also:

  • Special Area of Conservation
  • Special Protection Area

Famous quotes containing the words list of, northern ireland, list, special, areas, conservation, northern and/or ireland:

    “I made a list of things I have
    to remember and a list
    of things I want to forget,
    but I see they are the same list.”
    —Linda Pastan (b. 1932)

    “... in Northern Ireland, if you don’t have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.”
    —Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)

    “I made a list of things I have
    to remember and a list
    of things I want to forget,
    but I see they are the same list.”
    —Linda Pastan (b. 1932)

    “A special feature of the structure of our book is the monstrous but perfectly organic part that eavesdropping plays in it.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.”
    —Karl Kraus (1874–1936)

    “The putting into force of laws which shall secure the conservation of our resources, as far as they may be within the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, including the more important work of saving and restoring our forests and the great improvement of waterways, are all proper government functions which must involve large expenditure if properly performed.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)