1 Site of Special
Scientific Interest
The site was
notified an SSSI in 1984, the SSSI features are:
1. Active raised bog
(also SAC feature)
2. Marshy grassland
on mineral soils on the river floodplain
3. Tall herb fen
dominated by Phalaris arundinacea
4. Semi-natural
broadleaved woodland
5. Bryophyte
assemblage
6. Invertebrate
assemblage
7. Breeding bird
assemblage
8. Sphagnum
balticum
9. Scapania
paludicola (liverwort)
10. Lurvnium nutans
(floating water plantain)
11. Singa hamata (an
orb-weaving spider)
12. Coenophdia
subrosea (rosy marsh moth)
13. Coenonympha
tullia (large heath butterfly)
14. Subsurface
stratigraphical profile comprising lacustrine clays, overlying peat
and raised bog landform assemblage
15. Teifi river
channels together with associated fluvial landforms
2 Special Area of
Conservation (SAC)
Cors Caron was
declared a SAC in December 2004 The SAC features are:
• Active
raised bogs
• Bog
woodland
• Degraded
raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration
• Depressions
on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion
• Transition
mires and quaking bogs
• Otter, Lutra
lutra
3 Ramsar
designation
In 1993, it was
listed as a wetland of international importance by the RAMSAR
Convention.
