Northern Ireland Special Protection Areas

Published by: Marine Institute

Licensed under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Category: Environment

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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).

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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