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		Written answer
	answer has question	3hxjJqMC
	answer has answering person	Therese Coffey
	answer text	<p>The England network of 87 classified special protection areas, covering approximately 1.5 million hectares of key habitats, protects many rare, threatened and vulnerable birds including curlews.</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 to increase breeding numbers. This forms part of an international action plan to address curlew decline, which the UK supports as a signatory of the African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbird Agreement.</p><p> </p><p>The Government’s agri-environment schemes have been designed to encourage habitat management. This includes providing suitable nesting and foraging conditions for wading birds such as curlew.</p><p> </p>
	answer given date	2017-11-17
	answer has answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	written answer has answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	answering body has written answer	0dl8pEI4
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	answering body has answer	0dl8pEI4
3hxjJqMC	question has answer	0dl8pEI4
Therese Coffey	answering person has answer	0dl8pEI4