Area of special scientific interest
Northern Irish conservation designation
An area of special scientific interest or ASSI is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in Northern Ireland. ASSIs are the equivalent of sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) in the rest of the United Kingdom.
They are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Northern Ireland are based upon them, including national nature reserves, Ramsar sites, Special Protection Areas, and Special Areas of Conservation.
See also
- Conservation in the United Kingdom
- List of SSSIs by Area of Search
- List of ASSIs in Northern Ireland
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
References
External links
- Environment & Heritage Service Northern Ireland clickable map plus notes of Areas of Special Scientific Interest in Northern Ireland
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SSSIs in the United Kingdom, grouped by Area of Search
- Avon
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Cleveland
- Cornwall
- County Durham
- Cumbria
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Dorset
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- East Sussex
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Greater London
- Greater Manchester
- Hampshire
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Isle of Wight
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Merseyside
- Norfolk
- North Yorkshire
- Northamptonshire
- Northumberland
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Rutland
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- South Yorkshire
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Tyne and Wear
- Warwickshire
- West Midlands
- West Sussex
- West Yorkshire
- Wiltshire
- Worcestershire
- Angus and Dundee
- Annandale and Eskdale
- Badenoch and Strathspey
- Banff and Buchan
- Berwickshire and Roxburgh
- Caithness
- Clydesdale and South East Glasgow
- Cumnock and Kyle
- Dumbarton and North Glasgow
- Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy
- East Perth
- East Ross and Cromarty
- Edinburgh and West Lothian
- Falkirk and Clackmannan
- Gordon and Aberdeen
- Inverness
- Islay and Jura
- Kincardine and Deeside
- Kintyre
- Lorne
- Mid and East Lothian
- Mid Argyll and Cowal
- Moray and Nairn
- Mull, Coll and Tiree
- Nithsdale
- North East Fife
- North Lochaber
- North West Sutherland
- North Wester Ross and Cromarty
- Orkney
- Renfrew and Cunninghame
- Rum and the Small Isles
- Shetland
- Skye and Lochalsh
- South East Sutherland
- South Lochaber
- South Perth
- South Wester Ross and Cromarty
- Stirling
- Tweeddale and Ettrick and Lauderdale
- West Perth
- Western Isles North
- Western Isles South
- Wigtown and Stewartry
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