National Parks and Wildlife Service - Site Specific Conservation Objectives for EU Annex 1 Habitats - Polylines

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Title
National Parks and Wildlife Service - Site Specific Conservation Objectives for EU Annex 1 Habitats - Polylines
Alternate title
SAC Conservation Objective Habitats - Polylines
Date ( Creation )
Date ( Publication )
Date ( Revision )
Identifier
PS.IE.EPA.PROT_SAC_COHABITATSPL

Abstract
Conservation objectives for Natura 2000 Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) and Special Protection Areas (SPAs) have to be set for the habitats and species for which the sites are selected. These objectives are used when carrying out appropriate assessments for plans and projects that might impact on these sites. Site-specific conservation objectives outline attributes with targets, which define favourable condition for a habitat or species at a particular site. They are used for appropriate assessment of plans or projects. In addition, they can provide useful information for conservation management planning. The maintenance of habitats and species within Natura 2000 sites at favourable conservation condition will contribute to the overall maintenance of favourable conservation status of those habitats and species at a national level. This is a national dataset. Site-specific conservation objectives aim to define favourable conservation condition for Habitats Directive Annex I habitats and Annex II species at a site level. This project relates to the following Annex I habitat at specific sites: - Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic coasts (1230), - Watercourses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation (3260), Favourable conservation condition of a habitat is achieved when: - its natural range, and area it covers within that range, is stable or increasing, and - the ecological factors that are necessary for its long-term maintenance exist and are likely to continue to exist for the foreseeable future, and - the conservation condition of its typical species is favourable Habitat mapping is used to help define the area and range parameters for conservation objectives
Purpose
To set conservation objectives for Natura 2000 network sites. Site-specific conservation objectives outline attributes with targets, which define favourable condition for a habitat or species at a particular site. They are used for appropriate assessment of plans or projects. In addition, they can provide useful information for conservation management planning. The maintenance of habitats and species within Natura 2000 sites at favourable conservation condition will contribute to the overall maintenance of favourable conservation status of those habitats and species at a national level.

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Graphic overview
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GemetInspireTheme ( Theme )
  • Protected sites
GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 ( Theme )
  • environment, biodiversity, protected land, water protected area
National Parks and Wildlife Service, Ireland ( Theme )
  • Mapping, Habitat, Habitats Directive, SAC (Special Area of Conservation), Conservation, Coastal
ISO 3166 ( Place )
  • IE
Use limitation
No conditions apply
Use limitation
No conditions apply
Other constraints
Public access and use of data is subject to the National Parks and Wildlife Data License
Denominator
10560
Topic category
  • Inland waters
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Vertical extent

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0
Maximum value
1014

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Supplemental Information
Reference system identifier
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29902

Title
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset
Alternate title
EPSG
Date ( Publication )

Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile (10.x)

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OnLine resource
Download data 

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OnLine resource
REST service 

REST service

OnLine resource
WMS GetMap 

WMS GetMap

Conformance result

Title
INSPIRE Data Specification on Protected Sites
Alternate title
INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
Date ( Publication )
Explanation
The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
Pass
false

Conformance result

Title
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Alternate title
INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
Date ( Publication )
Explanation
Level of conformance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Pass
false
Statement
The data contained in this dataset is initially created at a site specific level and then incorporated into a national dataset for dissemination. The site specific level data is created by performing a Clip operation using the relevant SAC boundary on the Cliff_section or the Browne(2005)_cliff_sites dataset (for island sites only not covered by recent survey). Additional appropriate attribution is given to the dataset. Expert opinion is used to resolve any issues which arise. Please note: Due to the fact that the county boundary line used as the basis for the Cliff_ section shapefile is a coarse representation of the coastline depicted on the OSi Six inch mapping series, there are lengths of identified cliff sections located outside designated site boundaries. It should be noted that if the data contained in the Cliff_section shapefile were a more faithful representation of the coastline it can be presumed that many of these omitted cliff sections would be located inside designated site boundaries. The site specific level data is produced by creating a polyline between locations identified by NPWS staff or from data contained in internal NPWS files, on the OSi Discovery Series (1:50,000) mapping between which Floating River Vegetation is located. A Clip operation using the relevant SAC boundary is performed. Additional appropriate attribution is given to the dataset. Expert opinion is used to resolve any issues which arise. This dataset has been created using ArcMap 10. The coordinate reference system of this dataset is Irish National Grid.

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Metadata standard version
1.2

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