Lecture 2: Habitats and Birds Directives

Question 1

What is Annex 1?

Answer 1

-Habitat types that require SAC designation
-Priority habitats that are at risk of disappearing

Question 2

What is Annex II?

Answer 2

-Animal and plant species whose conservation requires the designation of SACs

Question 3

What is Annex IV?

Answer 3

Animal and plant species in need of strict protection

Question 4

What is Annex V?

Answer 4

Animal and plant species whose taking in the wild and exploitation may be subject to management measures

Question 5

What are Irish animals that are listed in Annex IV?

Answer 5

-Otters
-All bat species
-Natterjack toad
-The Kerry slug

Question 6

What are Irish plant species listed in Annex IV?

Answer 6

-The Slender Naiad
-Yellow Marsh Saxifrage
-The Killarney Fern

Question 7

What does FCS mean?

Answer 7

Favourable Conservation Status

Question 8

What does CI stand for?

Answer 8

Community Interest

Question 9

What are habitats of community interest?

Answer 9

-Are natural habitats that are in danger of disappearance
-Have a small natural range
-Present outstanding examples of typical characteristics of one or more of the nine biogeographical regions

Question 10

What are species of community interest?

Answer 10

-Are endangered species
-Venerable species
-Rare species
-Endemic species

Question 11

What is an example of a priority habitat?

Answer 11

Limestone pavement

Question 12

What is the definition of conservation status of a natural habitat?

Answer 12

Conservation status of a natural habitat is favourable when its natural range and areas it covers within that range are stable or increasing

Question 13

What is the definition of conservation status of a species?

Answer 13

Is favourable when
-Population dynamics on the species indiacate that it is maintaining itself
-Natural range of the species is neither being reduced or likely to reduce
-Sufficiently large habitat to maintain its populations on a long term basis

Question 13

What is Natura 2000?

Answer 13

Is a coherent European ecological network of SACs
-Composed of sites that are natural habitat types listed in Annex 1 and habitats of the species listed in Annex II
-Sites in the Birds Directive

Question 14

What is the CJEU?

Answer 14

Court of Justice of the European Union

Question 15

What factors are revelent to the designation of SACs?

Answer 15

Ecological

Question 16

What is the Birds directive?

Answer 16

-To protect, manage and control the 500 species of wild birds that naturally occur in the European Union,