Data Zone
Country/territory: United Kingdom
IBA Criteria met: C6 (2007)
For more information about IBA criteria please click here
Area: 1,151 ha
Protection status:
| Most recent IBA monitoring assessment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year of assessment | Threat score (pressure) | Condition score (state) | Action score (response) |
| 2007 | medium | favourable | low |
| For more information about IBA monitoring please click here | |||
Site description
Loch Assynt is the largest of the nutrient-poor lochs in the north-west Highlands surrounded by broadleaved Betula and Sorbus forest on higher ground with blanket and valley mires, wet heath and acid fen vegetation lower down.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2020) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Assynt Lochs. Downloaded from
http://www.birdlife.org on 27/10/2020.
