Plantlife's Important Plant Areas - 2020

<div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:105.4px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>Important Plant Areas (IPA) are the most important places in the world for wild plants. The Important Plant Areas concept identifies a network of the most valuable sites for plant diversity as a basis for prioritising conservation action at the site and landscape level. As such, the Important Plant Areas network in the UK supports and complements existing protected areas and conservation programmes. IPAs are not intended to be a form of site designation.</div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>&nbsp;</div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>The selection of Important Plant Areas follows consistent, internationally agreed scientific guidelines. IPAs have at least one of the following:<br />&nbsp;</div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>&nbsp;</div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:79.05px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>• A significant population of one or more species of international conservation concern;</div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>• An exceptionally rich flora in a European context;</div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>• An outstanding example of a habitat of international plant conservation and botanical importance</div></div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>&nbsp;</div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>IPAs include all plant taxon groups including vascular plants, lichens, bryophytes, freshwater and marine algae, stoneworts and desmids.&nbsp;</div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>&nbsp;</div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>&nbsp;</div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>Publications: <a target='_blank' href='https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-017-1336-6' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>Important Plant Areas: revised selection criteria for a global approach to plant conservation | Biodiversity and Conservation (springer.com)</a></div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>&nbsp;</div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>&nbsp;</div><div style='background-attachment:scroll; background-clip:border-box; background-color:transparent; background-image:none; background-origin:padding-box; background-repeat:repeat; background-size:auto; font-stretch:100%; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-numeric:normal; height:26.35px; margin:0px; padding:0px; width:981.54px;'>For more information please visit the&nbsp;<a target='_blank' href='https://www.plantlife.org.uk/uk/nature-reserves-important-plant-areas/important-plant-areas' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>Plantlife IPA website</a>. <span style='background-color:rgb(255,255,255); 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