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National Parks and Wildlife Service - Site Specific Conservation Objectives for EU Annex 11 Species - Polyline

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 II species at specific sites:



- Nore Freshwater Pearl Mussel - Margaritifera durrovensis (1990)

- Otter - Lutra lutra (1355)

- Freshwater Pearl Mussel - Margaritifera margaritifera (1029)



Favourable conservation condition of a species is achieved when:

- population dynamics data on the species concerned indicate that it is maintaining itself on a long term basis as a viable component of its natural habitats, and

- the natural range of the species is neither being reduced nor is likely to be reduced for the foreseeable future, and

- there is, and will probably continue to be, a sufficiently large habitat to maintain its populations on a long-term basis



Mapping of species distribution and suitable habitat is used to help define distribution, population and range parameters for conservation objectives

Simple

Alternate title

SAC Conservation Objective Species - Polylines

Date (Creation)
2010-01-01T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2015-01-15T00:00:00
Date (Revision)
2015-01-15T00:00:00
Citation identifier
SD.IE.EPA.PROT_SAC_COSPECIESPL
Purpose

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.

Status
On going
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Environmental Protection Agency

Informatics

gis@epa.ie

Custodian
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

GemetInspireTheme

  • Species Distribution

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

  • environment

  • biodiversity

  • species distribution

National Parks and Wildlife Service, Ireland

  • Mapping

  • Habitats Directive

  • SAC (Special Area of Conservation)

  • Conservation

  • Conservation Objectives

ISO 3166

  • IE

Use limitation

Data is for public use under Creative Commons CC-By 4.0

Use limitation

Data is for public use under Creative Commons CC-By 4.0

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License
Other constraints

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
50000
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Inland waters
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Begin date
2010-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2015-01-15T00:00:00

Vertical extent

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
1014

Vertical CS

No information provided.

Vertical datum

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

EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25

Distribution format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

10.x

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

NPWS GIS Unit

datadelivery@ahg.gov.ie

Point of contact
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

image/png

https://gis-stg.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA_INTERNAL/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=EPA_INTERNAL:PROT_SAC_COSPECIESPL&styles=&bbox=49858.27819999959,20517.43200000003,313208.91839999985,459450.1916000005&width=460&height=768&srs=EPSG:29902&format=image%2Fpng

WMS GetMap

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title

INSPIRE Data Specification on Species Distribution

Alternate title

INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0

Date (Publication)
2014-07-17
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
No

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)
2010-12-08
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
No
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 produced from the locations identified by NPWS staff and from records in the NPWS rare and threatened species database. A Intersect 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. The locations of Geyer's Whorl Snail are represented with 1 km grid squares due to the sensitive nature of this species.

This dataset has been created using ArcMap 10.1.

The coordinate reference system of this dataset is Irish National Grid.

Metadata

File identifier
548d4f84-f570-45be-ad93-cf212612e90b XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-08-21T14:11:47.97Z
Metadata standard name

ISDI Metadata Profile

Metadata standard version

1.2

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

NPWS GIS Unit

datadelivery@ahg.gov.ie

Point of contact
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

biodiversity environment species distribution
GemetInspireTheme

Species Distribution
National Parks and Wildlife Service, Ireland

Conservation Conservation Objectives Habitats Directive Mapping SAC (Special Area of Conservation)


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