e7361b40-d1dc-4474-aaa4-3510d161451e National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Ecological Data Manager +353-1-8882000 - National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D07 N7CV Ireland datadelivery@housing.gov.ie 2021-05-24T20:37:44 ISDI Metadata Profile 1.2 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25 https://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29903 EPSG The Badger and Habitat Survey of Ireland 1989 - 1995 Badger Survey of Ireland 1989 1995-01-01T00:00:00 The-Badger-and-Habitat-Survey-of-Ireland-1989---1995 https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ 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. 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. National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Ecological Data Manager +353-1-8882000 - National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D02 N7CV Ireland datadelivery@housing.gov.ie Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 GEMET 2008-06-01 biodiversity GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1 GEMET 2012-07-20 National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, species, meles meles, badger National Biodiversity Plan, heritage National Parks and Wildlife Service NPWS 2015-07-27 Ireland ISO 3166 ISO Country List 2008-12-13 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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/ 50000 environment -10 -6.000000000000001 51.766740000000006 55.5 0 1014 An Ordnance Datum or OD is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps. A spot height may be expressed as AOD for "above ordnance datum". Usually mean sea level (MSL) is used for the datum. Malin Ordnance Datum Derivation of vertical height or depth (in metres) In the Republic of Ireland, OD for the Ordnance Survey of Ireland is Malin Ordnance Datum: the Mean Sea Level (MSL) at Portmoor Pier, Malin Head, County Donegal, between 1960 and 1969. 5731 EPSG Projection 5731 - Malin Head height Metres Derivation of Altitude OD based on Mean Sea Level, Malin Head 1960-1969 ESRI Shapefile . National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Ecological Data Manager +353-1-8882000 - National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D07 N7CV Ireland datadelivery@housing.gov.ie.ie https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/Badger_survey_1989_1995_GIS.zip application/zip Download SHP Download SHP https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/publications/pdf/Smal_1995_Badger_Report_0.pdf text/pdf Publication Document Publication - The Badger and Habitat Survey of Ireland. The abundance and distribution of the badger meles meles in Ireland, with special reference to habitat surveys INSPIRE Data Specification on Species distribution INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0 2013-12-10 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. false 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 INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation 2010-12-08 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 false 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.