Purple Horizons - Peatland Nature Recovery Opportunities Map (England)

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A number of information sources and data layers were used to produce this layer. The Primary, Associated and Restorable habitat polygons were produced based on habitat and species data held by EcoRecord and SER to complement NE priority habitat inventory data. Natural England have a 3rd party licence from EcoRecord and Staffordshire Ecological Record to use the data from their records, where they have used data to inform the final dataset. Woodland Creation Opportunity areas were identified based on a number of environmental criteria including historic land use, habitats, and soils. For a full description of the methodology see the following report: WOODLAND OPPORTUNITY MAPPING IN THE PURPLE HORIZONS NATURE RECOVERY PROJECT AREA Datasets Used: Habitat data - EcoRecord TPL;  Local Wildlife Site data - EcoRecord TPL; Species data - EcoRecord TPL; Local Wildlife Site data - SER TPL; Habitat Composite dataset - SER TPL; Species data - SER TPL; Landscape Character Typology - National Soils Resource Institute; NatMap Vector - National Soils Resource Institute; Working with Natural Processes (WWNP) - Environment Agency; Source Protection Zones [Merged] - Environment Agency; Sites of Special Scientific Interest - Natural England; Habitat Networks (England) - Natural England; Priority Habitat Inventories - Natural England; Midlands Heartlands Heathland - Nature Recovery Opportunities Map - Natural England; SSSI Impact Zones - Natural England; BGS Geology 625K - British Geological Survey; Ancient Woodland Inventory (draft) - Birmingham & the Black Country - Natural England; Ancient Woodland Inventory (draft) - Staffordshire - Natural England; OS MasterMap - Ordnance Survey; Registered Battlefields - Historic England; Scheduled Monuments - Historic England; World Heritage Sites - Historic England; Provisional Agricultural Land Classification (ALC) - Natural England.