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Beddmanarch–Cymyran

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More generally, the area is also important for a mixture of environments including mudflats and sandbanks, tidally swept areas of bedrock, rock outcrops, shingle bars, muddy gravels, and coastal grassland and scrub. All of these support a variety of wildlife including breeding birds, such as arctic
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and may further require consent. 28 operations are currently listed and include activities relating to farming, fishing, water utilisation, and the introduction or removal of flora and fauna. The list is not prohibitive, but many activities may be limited to certain areas or times of the year.
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Low levels of nutrients in the dune soils are important for the eelgrass beds. Pollution from fertilizers and supplementary feeding raises nutrient levels which encourage coarse grasses and mat forming seaweed to the detriment of other
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Changes to the tidal regime, for example, changes to the opening of channels would affect the unique environment of the Inland Sea which often provides areas of mudflat available to birds when it is high tide
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Bait digging can affect the muddy gravel environments, but filling in pits and replacing boulders, as suggested by the Conservation Code for Anglers, reduces the problem.
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Disturbance from shooting may deny feeding opportunities to wintering populations of waders and wildfowl. Controlled shooting occurs but there are agreed sanctuary zones.
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While many activities can damage protected sites, Beddmanarch–Cymyran SSSI is sensitive to a number of possible changes and activities:
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Salt marsh vegetation; glasswort, common saltmarsh-grass, thrift, lax-flowered sea-lavender, sea rush and the uncommon golden samphire (
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and the mainland of Anglesey. This includes the Cymyran Strait (sometimes called the Holy Island Strait), the tidal reaches of the
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The Beddmanarch–Cymyran site comprises the area of coastal salt-marshes, mud-flats and shallow coastal water lying between
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to the east and extends northwards to Porth Penrhyn-Mawr. There are two crossings over the water that makes up the site,
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Light grazing of the coastal heath encourages heather. Paths and tracks provide bare ground for dwarf rush germination.
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Beach recreation can disturb nesting ringed plover wintering water-birds and nesting terns.
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Coastal dune heath; heather with sand wedge present at both Traeth y Gribin and at Cymyran
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The wintering populations of the ringed plover and greenshank are monitored by the
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A wide variety of operations may affect the site and require consultation with
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As a marine protected area the site is important for the common ringed plover (
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extending to just over 900 hectares (2,200 acres), and centred on the
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Marine biology; especially all three British species of eelgrass (
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as it includes intertidal areas and contains marine components.
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Vanstone, A.; Lamacraft, D.; Challis, A. (30 March 2012).
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The low levels of suspended sediment encourage eelgrass.
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Site of Special Scientific Interest

Beddmanarch–Cymyran is located in Anglesey
Location
Grid reference
SH 275 790
Coordinates
53°17′00″N 4°35′16″W / 53.28345°N 4.5879°W / 53.28345; -4.5879
Notification
site of special scientific interest
Anglesey
Cymyran Strait
marine protected area
Holy Island
Afon Alaw
Four Mile Bridge
Stanley Embankment
Zostera
Inula crithmoides
ringed plover
curlew
greenshank
red-breasted merganser
goldeneye
brent geese
Juncus capitatus
Ruppia cirrhosa
Charadrius hiaticula
Tringa nebularia
RSPB

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