{"id":905,"date":"2009-12-09T11:32:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T11:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=905"},"modified":"2010-03-24T11:32:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T11:32:24","slug":"natural-conservation-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"Natural Conservation developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natural England has launched formal  consultation on a dozen proposed new marine conservation sites.<br \/>\nThe  12 sites in question consist of 10 possible Special Areas of  Conservation (SACs) and two potential Special Protection Areas (SPAs).  The sites include sandbanks of the Outer Wash and southern North Sea and  areas of the Irish Sea important for birds and cold water coral reefs  off north-west Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>In separate developments the Scottish  Government has asked Scottish Natural Heritage to assess over 350,000  hectares of northern and western Scotland as Special Protection Areas  for the golden eagle.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Scottish Government has  announced local consultation on the Sound of Mull spatial plan.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/england\/professionals\/news\/archive\/2009\/dec09\/2009-12-week-1\/041209_6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/england\/professionals\/news\/archive\/2009\/dec09\/2009-12-week-1\/041209_6\">Link  to Planning Portal News Article<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.naturalengland.org.uk\/about_us\/news\/2009\/271109.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalengland.org.uk\/about_us\/news\/2009\/271109.aspx\">Link  to Natural England News Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural England has launched formal consultation on a dozen proposed new marine conservation sites. The 12 sites in question consist of 10 possible Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) and two potential Special Protection Areas (SPAs). The sites include sandbanks of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=905\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}