1. Home
  2. Publishers
  3. Marine Institute
  4. Northern Ireland Special...

Northern Ireland Special Protection Areas

Published by: Marine Institute
Category: Environment
Views: 2
Openness rating:

Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are designated under the European Commission Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds. All European Community member States are required to identify internationally important areas for breeding, over-wintering and migrating birds and designate them as Special Protection Areas (SPAs).

Data Resources (1)

WMS
available as WMS
Preview Download  

Data Resource Preview - WMS GetMap

Theme Environment
Date released 2013-01-01
Date updated 2023-09-08
Dataset conforms to these standards 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.
Rights notes {"Data is for public use under Creative Commons CC-By 4.0",https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/,license}
Update frequency Other
Language English
Geographic coverage in GeoJSON format {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-10.47472, 51.44555],[-10.47472, 55.37999], [-6.01306, 55.37999], [-6.01306, 51.44555], [-10.47472, 51.44555]]]}
Spatial Reference Systems (SRS) TM65 / Irish Grid (EPSG:29902)
Vertical Extent {"verticalDomainName": "EPSG Projection 5731 - Malin Head height", "minVerticalExtent": "0", "maxVerticalExtent": "1014"}
Provenance information 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/search/type/publication?query=Special%20Protection%20Area
Period of time covered (begin) 1980-01-01
Period of time covered (end) 2014-01-24