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• Limestone pavement is a globally rare habitat
which is threatened by extraction for the rock garden and water
feature trade.
• Limestone pavements are outcrops of rocks
where the surface has been dissolved by water over millions of years
into ‘paving blocks’.
• Limestone pavements are home to a number of rare and unusual
plants.
• There is very little limestone pavement found
anywhere in the world, and Britain and Ireland have much of this
very rare habitat. |
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•The
Limestone Pavement Action group (LPAG) is working to help deliver
the UK Biodiversity Action Plan for limestone pavement.
• LPAG works to reduce the threats to limestone
pavement from extraction, poor management and overgrazing; and to
increase knowledge about this very special habitat.
• Limestone pavement is protected by law in the UK and it
is an offence to damage or remove pavement from areas covered by
Limestone Pavement Orders.
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