SWITZERLAND · DESIGNATIONS · FEDERAL INVENTORIES
Landschaften und Naturdenkmäler (BLN)
What this layer shows
The Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments of National Importance under Art. 5 NHG and the VBLN. Under Art. 6 NHG an inventoried object particularly deserves to be preserved intact, or at any rate spared as far as possible; in performing a federal task that may be departed from only where interests of equal or greater national importance weigh against it. Where an object may be significantly impaired, the Federal Commission for the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage (ENHK) delivers an expert opinion (Art. 7 NHG). The protection objectives a project is measured against are in the object sheet, linked from each site.
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Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU), opendata.swiss: freie Nutzung, Quellenangabe Pflicht
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Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU), opendata.swiss: freie Nutzung, Quellenangabe Pflicht
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Schutzgebiete
The protected areas the map opens with, free, across Switzerland: Emerald and Ramsar sites, the BLN, the Swiss National Park and the parks of national importance, biosphere reserves and UNESCO natural sites, the waterbird and migratory bird reserves, bathing waters and SwitzerlandMobility's hiking routes.
Federal inventories
The inventories of national importance a project is measured against: BLN, floodplains, raised bogs and fens, mire landscapes, dry grasslands and amphibian breeding sites, with the hunting-ban areas, bird reserves, forest reserves, wildlife rest zones, Emerald and Ramsar sites and Pro Natura's reserves. The basis of every environmental assessment under the NHG.
Environmental assessment
Where an environmental consultancy starts a site assessment: the federal biotope inventories, forest reserves and wildlife rest zones, the state of the rivers, wildlife corridors and amphibian crossing sites, the sites of threatened mosses, and the groundwater protection zones, hazard map and polluted-site registers of the cantons that publish them openly.
Heritage and landscape
Heritage sites of national importance (ISOS), historic traffic routes (IVS), cultural property of national importance and UNESCO World Heritage, with the BLN landscapes, mire landscapes, geotopes and the Alpine Convention perimeter.