Northern Ireland Special Areas of Conservation

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Published by: Marine Institute

Licensed under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Category: Environment

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Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) are those which have been given greater protection under the European legislation of The Habitat's Directive. They have been designated because of a possible threat to the special habitats or species which they contain and to provide increased protection to a variety of animals, plants and habitats of importance to biodiversity both on a national and international scale.a

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Theme	Environment
Date released	2013-01-01
Date updated	2023-08-21
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/articles/special-areas-conservation
Period of time covered (begin)	1980-01-01
Period of time covered (end)	2014-01-24