The marine Special Area of Conservation is recognition that the rich marine life found around the Pembrokeshire coast and islands and within the Milford Haven Waterway is of European importance. But just what is so special?

The Pembrokeshire Marine SAC was selected as containing excellent European examples of the following 'conservation features'. Conservation, or interest, features are the habitats and species for which a site is designated.

These are:

• Caves
• Estuaries
• Grey Seals
• Mud and sand flats
• Lagoons
• Lampreys
• Large shallow inlets and bays
• Otters
• Reefs
• Saltmarsh
• Shads
• Shore dock
• Subtidal sandbanks

For more details on each please click on the pages on the left.

NOTE: The boundary of the Pembrokeshire Marine SAC was determined to encompass the conservation features for which the site was selected; it is not a representation of the precise extent of any one feature. The features are distributed throughout the site; no one occupies the whole site and they overlap in places - see maps on the feature pages.