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

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

Alternate title: SAC Conservation Objective Habitats - Polylines

Date (Creation): 2010-01-01T00:00:00

Date (Publication): 2015-01-15T00:00:00

Date (Revision): 2015-01-15T00:00:00

Citation identifier: PS.IE.EPA.PROT_SAC_COHABITATSPL

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.

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

Protected sites

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

environment
biodiversity
protected land
water protected area

National Parks and Wildlife Service, Ireland

Mapping
Habitat
Habitats Directive
SAC (Special Area of Conservation)
Conservation
Coastal

ISO 3166

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: 10560

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Inland waters

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_COHABITATSPL&styles=&bbox=23117.150399999693,19588.417999999598,333124.8360000001,459757.5625&width=540&height=768&srs=EPSG:29902&format=image%2Fpng	WMS GetMap

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Data Specification on Protected Sites

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 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.