Marine Conservation Zones (England)

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Summary

These are the boundaries for Marine Conservation Zones, and Highly Protected Marine Areas, which are both designated under the Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009). They protect nationally important marine wildlife, habitats, geology and geomorphology. Sites were selected in English inshore and offshore waters to protect not just rare and threatened marine wildlife and habitats, but also the range of biodiversity across biogeographic regions. The Highly Protected Marine Areas project followed the recommendations of the Benyon review in 2022 and sites were selected to achieve the full recovery of the marine ecosystem within the site, including the biotic and abiotic elements of the seabed, water column and surface of the sea.

This data layer is composed of boundaries for both Marine Conservation Zones and Highly Protected Marine Areas. These boundary polygons were developed by Natural England and JNCC through a process which involved a number of different stages including the gathering and assessment of evidence, site proposals, consultations and refining of boundaries before final site designation. The boundaries have been drawn using the wide variety of evidence which went into this process. Where inshore sites follow the shoreline, they are usually drawn to follow OS Mastermap MHW. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

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Marine_Conservation_Zones_(England)_ESRI_REST_Feature_Server_Endpoint N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
MarineConservationZonesEngland_WMS N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
MarineConservationZonesEngland_WFS N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
MarineConservationZonesEngland_Download N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
ArcGIS Open Dataset record page N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
Open_Government_Licence.url N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
Open Government Licence.url N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
Marine_Conservation_Zone_Factsheets.url N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
Marine_Conservation_Zone_Designations.url N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
Marine_Conservation_Zones_England.lyr N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
Marine Conservation Zones - Attribute Metadata.pdf PDF 18 December 2023 Not available
Data_Gov_UK_Metadata_Marine_Conservation_Zones.url N/A 18 December 2023 Not available

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Added to data.gov.uk
2023-12-18
Access contraints
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Harvest GUID
c0061c93-d444-481c-a14e-653b8a8e2b1a
Extent
Latitude: 56.69119° to 49.86°
Longitude: -11.39317° to 3.24301°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date
2016-02-13 (publication)
2023-07-15 (revision)
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Responsible party
Natural England (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
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Metadata language
eng
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