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Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) ...Department of Housing, Local Government, and HeritageEnvironmentIrish waters represent one of the most important marine habitats for seabirds in Europe, utilized by a wide range of seabird species. However, the at-sea abundance and distribution of many of the seabird species occurring in Irish waters remains poorly understood. Under the EU...
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Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Celtic Sea Herring Acoustic Survey (CSHAS) 2022Department of Housing, Local Government, and HeritageEnvironmentUnder the EU Birds Directive, there is a requirement on member states to conduct surveillance of seabirds occurring within their waters. A standard line transect survey methodology was employed by the seabird observer with additional visual point sampling at fishing locations...
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Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Blue Whiting Acoustic Survey (BWAS) 2021Department of Housing, Local Government, and HeritageEnvironmentThe purpose of this project was to count seabird species occurring in Irish waters. A standard line transect survey methodology was employed by the seabird observer with additional visual point sampling at fishing locations and oceanographic sampling stations during the Blue...
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EnvironmentThe Grassland Monitoring Project 2006 represents the initial phase of a larger grassland survey which is designed to meet the monitoring and conservation objectives of the Habitats Directive. The Grassland Monitoring Project 2006 is initially focusing on the two priority...
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Habitat and management data collation and collection on callows and floodplain grasslandsDepartment of Housing, Local Government, and HeritageEnvironmentThe project was organised into two distinct stages. Stage A involved the collection and collation of the habitat and management data on floodplain grasslands and was primarily a GIS task. Stage A included a review of appropriate management for callows and floodplain...
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Small Cetacean Site Survey Investigations 2008Department of Housing, Local Government, and HeritageEnvironmentA survey of small cetaceans was carried out at three sites (Carnsore Point, Blasket Islands cSAC and Donegal bay) to derive density and abundance estimates using distance sampling. Single platform line transect surveys were carried out on three days at each between July and...
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The monitoring and assessment of three EU Habitats Directive Annex I grassland habitatsDepartment of Housing, Local Government, and HeritageEnvironmentThe monitoring and assessment of three EU Habitats Directive Annex I grassland habitats, referred to as the Grassland Monitoring Survey (GMS), was a three-year survey conducted from 2015 to 2017 by BEC Consultants on behalf of NPWS. One hundred and ten EU Annex I grassland...
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Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Western European Shelf Pelagic Acoustic Survey (WESPAS) ...Department of Housing, Local Government, and HeritageEnvironmentUnder the EU Birds Directive, there is a requirement on member states to conduct surveillance of seabirds occurring within their waters. A standard line transect survey methodology was employed by the seabird observer with additional visual point sampling at fishing locations...
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Seabird Monitoring undertaken during the Celtic Sea Herring Acoustic Survey (CSHAS) 2021Department of Housing, Local Government, and HeritageEnvironmentIrish waters represent one of the most important marine habitats for seabirds in Europe and are utilized by a wide range of seabird species. However, the at-sea abundance and distribution of many of the seabird species occurring in Irish waters remains poorly understood. Under...
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Fossitt Fingal zoning dataset contains polygon areas attributed with zonning policy. This dataset does not provide full coverage of zonning policy for the Fingal area. Gerry Clabby is Fingal Heritage officer and can be contacted in relation to this dataset:...
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The aim of the NPWS Seabird Foraging Radii Project was to create a number of polygon shapefiles describing the geographic foraging range of 20 seabird species identified by the National Parks and Wildlife Service Birds unit. The polygons were centred around Natura 2000 SPA...
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EnvironmentDataset owned and provided by Fingal County Council
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EnvironmentDataset owned and provided by Failte Ireland Dataset representative of Failte Ireland tourism entities identified as being a Heritage Assett: Birdwatch Ireland Nature Reserves Forest Parks Refuges for Fauna Important Birdwatch Areas Parks & Gardens National parks Mountian...
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EnvironmentDataset owned and provided by Galway County Council Data provided in esri format in June 2010 Dataset attributed with Site 'Location' and Site 'Name'
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The Environmental Protection Agency (ie. EPA) Coastal Status Feature Class dataset has been sourced from the EPA. This dataset covers Coastal waters around the Irish coastline designated under the EU Water Framework Directive. The EU Water Framework Directive aims to ensure...
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Dataset provided by Limerick County Council. Dataset was generated as part of the Shannon Integrated Coastal Management Zone Survey. Dataset attributed by Angling 'Method' & 'License No.'.
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EnvironmentRAMSAR The Convention on Wetlands came into force for Ireland on 15 March 1985. Ireland presently has 45 sites designated as Wetlands of International Importance, with a surface area of 66,994 hectares. For information on Irelands designated RAMSAR sites view:...
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EnvironmentProperties inscribed on the World Heritage List Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne (1993) Skellig Michael (1996) Properties submitted on the Tentative List The Burren (2010) The Historic City of Dublin (2010) The Céide Fields and North West Mayo Boglands...
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EnvironmentDataset owned and provided by Galway County Council Suggest viewing dataset with SPA Designations Dataset attributed with Bird Breeding site 'Location' and 'Type'
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EnvironmentDataset downloaded from MIDA - http://mida.ucc.ie/ Dataset attributed with 'Name', 'Fish Type' & 'Tonnage'
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