Carrick Heaths is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), noted for its biological characteristics, in mid

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, UK. It incorporates the old ''Silverwell Moor SSSI''. Within the site the

Red Data Book The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biolog ...

listed barn owl can be found.

Geography

The SSSI comprises ten individual sites, spread over a radius around the city of

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, totalling an area of . These are located at the OS grid references:

References

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cornwall Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1973 {{England-SSSI-stub