Saline lagoons - biodiversity target

The current number, area and distribution of coastal saline lagoons should be maintained and enhanced. There are at present only about 1,300 ha of known saline lagoonal habitats in the UK.

• Create, by the year 2010, sufficient lagoon habitat to offset losses over the last 50 years.;
• Recent evaluations estimated that 38 English lagoons were lost in the later half of the eighties. Within the next 20 years the creation of at least 120 ha of lagoon habitat is considered attainable and necessary within England just to keep pace with projected losses.

Comment: The national biodiversity targets are revised from time to time and updated by the JNCC at http://www.ukbap.org.uk/.