Northern Ireland Special Areas of Conservation
Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) are those which have been given greater protection under the European legislation of The Habitat's Directive. They have been designated because of a possible threat to the special habitats or species which they contain and to provide increased protection to a variety of animals, plants and habitats of importance to biodiversity both on a national and international scale.a
Simple
- Alternate title
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N.I. SAC
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-01-01T00:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2013-01-01T00:00:00
- Date (Revision)
- 2013-01-01T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- PS.IE.EPA.PROT_NISAC
- Purpose
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To report on and manage Special Area of Conservation designations within Northern Ireland.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
Main contact
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GemetInspireTheme
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Protected sites
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GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1
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protection of animals
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protection of species
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protection of birds
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wildlife protection
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terrestrial ecosystem
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biodiversity
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ecological
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habitat
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ecology
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animal species
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wildlife sanctuary
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Environmental Protection Agency
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Special Area of Conservation
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SAC
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ISO 3166
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Northern Ireland
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- Use limitation
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Data is for public use under Creative Commons CC-By 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Biota
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- Begin date
- 1980-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2014-01-24T00:00:00
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 1014
Vertical CS
Vertical datum
- Reference system identifier
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http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29902
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
10.x
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Informatics
Publisher
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Data Specification on Protected sites
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.2
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-04-17
- Explanation
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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
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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
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INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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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
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The Conservation Objectives for these sites have been reviewed and are available for download and view from the DAERA website - https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/articles/special-areas-conservation
Metadata
- File identifier
- 89bedb0d-349c-4e46-ab8d-41a049c4e5d7 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-08-21T14:07:04.505Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISDI Metadata Profile
- Metadata standard version
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1.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
Main Contact
Author