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bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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Location: cambridge

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 05 12:08 pm Post subject: SSS1 sites, what are they

I am investigating a possible supplier of beef

Barton Ley Beef
https://www.regionalfoodanddrink.co.uk/directory/additional_information.php?selector=3057

this website suggests they graze/rear their cows on an SSS1 site.

My googling unfortunately doesn't produce any meaningful information about what this means, just that is might be something to do with conservation and biodiversity but no specific definition

Does anyone know?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 05 12:09 pm Post subject:
Site of Special Scientific Interest

bagpuss

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Location: cambridge

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 05 12:12 pm Post subject:
why are they rearing cattle on it then?

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 05 12:14 pm Post subject:
Well, if it's traditional meadow land, then rearing cattle on it might help to maintain its desirable qualities.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 05 12:15 pm Post subject:

bagpuss wrote:

why are they rearing cattle on it then?

Probably because cattle are ideal at keeping the fields how they used to be. If they are left then other plants may grow (such as brambles and tough grasses) that will compete with some of the rarer plants.

Many threatened habitats have evolved around sheep and cattle grazing etc... So, using a few cattle can be good.

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 05 12:27 pm Post subject:
It may be simply that cattle have been reared on that land for a very long time, therefore contributing to the individual character of the site. Things that are forbidden on an SSI include drainage work, felling, variation of grazing, spraying of pesticides, and are specific to individual sites, though drawn from a standard list.

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
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Location: carms in wales

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 05 2:21 pm Post subject: SSSI
in suffolk you can contact the Suffolk Wildlife Trust who can direct you to grazing of that sort. i know that the mere near framlingham castle is grazed on that basis...i have thought idly about it but worry about the fencing etc so never got down to it the animals are used as part of the land management process as are the exmoor ponies on various other sites.

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