Irish Spatial Data Exchange
The Badger and Habitat Survey of Ireland 1989 - 1995
This GIS dataset holds records from the Badger and Habitat Survey of Ireland 1989 - 1995. The survey was carried out on behalf of the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Department of Agriculture. In total, 729 1km squares were assessed for badger setts and by habitat composition, with surveys undertaken mainly
by Conservation Rangers of the National Parks & Wildlife Service. In order to obtain results on an all-Ireland basis the survey was extended to Northern Ireland. The survey in the North was carried out between 1990 and 1993 by researchers from the Department of Biology and Biochemistry Queen's University of Belfast with close co-operation between researchers in the North and in the Republic.
This project's principal aims have been to assess the overall numbers of badgers in Ireland and to provide a base-line for assessment of any future changes in badger numbers, to identify regional variations in density, to evaluate the extent of illegal digging or disturbance of setts and to relate badger density to the distribution and type of habitats present in an area. The overall value of the study has been to provide basic information on badgers in Ireland and to create a framework for preliminary and further examination of badgers and habitats in relation to the TB problem in cattle.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Badger Survey of Ireland 1989
- Date (Publication)
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / The-Badger-and-Habitat-Survey-of-Ireland-1989---1995
- Purpose
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This project's principal aims have been to assess the overall numbers of badgers in Ireland and to provide a base-line for assessment of any future changes in badger numbers, to identify regional variations in density, to evaluate the extent of illegal digging or disturbance of setts and to relate badger density to the distribution and type of habitats present in an area. The overall value of the study has been to provide basic information on badgers in Ireland and to create a framework for preliminary and further examination of badgers and habitats in relation to the TB problem in cattle.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Species distribution
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GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1
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biodiversity
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National Parks and Wildlife Service
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National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, species, meles meles, badger National Biodiversity Plan, heritage
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ISO 3166
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Ireland
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- Use limitation
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Copyright Government of Ireland. This dataset was created by National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. This copyright material is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
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Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 1014
Vertical CS
Vertical datum
- Reference system identifier
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EPSG
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https://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29903
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
.
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Point of contact
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name application/zip
https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/Badger_survey_1989_1995_GIS.zip Download SHP
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name text/pdf
https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/publications/pdf/Smal_1995_Badger_Report_0.pdf Publication Document
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Data Specification on Species distribution
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
- Date (Publication)
- 2013-12-10
- 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 methodology consisted of a full field survey of pre-selected 1km squares throughout the country. 735 1km squares were chosen from the Republic (144 in Northern Ireland; total for Ireland 879), each square being that at the extreme south-west corner of every l0km square of the island's National Grid. The squares were assessed for badger setts, and habitats present in each square were recorded, with 42 principal habitat types differentiated. Observations of other mammals (mainly foxes, hares and rabbits) were included in the overall surveys.
For a detailed description of the survey methodology please refer to the survey report.
Survey records were supplied to NPWS in an MS Access .mdb database, and records were uploaded into the NPWS Species database. Spot-checks of record locations against OSI Discovery series mapping were carried out prior to the upload, and Recorder 6 validation rules applied. The records were then exported from the Species database as a polygon shapefile showing squares, with the side lengths of the squares corresponding to the precision in which the records were provided.
Metadata
- File identifier
- e7361b40-d1dc-4474-aaa4-3510d161451e XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2021-05-24T20:37:44
- 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 Housing, Local Government and Heritage
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Author
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