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<p>The UK network of 270 classified special protection areas, covering approximately
2.8 million hectares of key habitats, protects many rare, threatened and vulnerable
birds including curlews.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s agri-environment schemes have
been designed to encourage habitat management including for curlew conservation in
targeted areas, to provide suitable nesting and foraging conditions.</p><p> </p><p>Natural
England is working with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on a recovery
programme aimed at providing a coordinated approach to the management of curlew habitats,
including predator control to increase breeding numbers. This forms part of an international
action plan to address the ‘near threatened’ status of the curlew, which the UK will
support in our role as signatory of the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement.</p>
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