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SWITZERLAND · DESIGNATIONS · FEDERAL INVENTORIES

Moorlandschaften von nationaler Bedeutung

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Mire landscapes of particular beauty and national importance under Art. 23b NHG and the Mire Landscapes Ordinance, protected since the 1987 Rothenthurm initiative by Art. 78 para. 5 of the Constitution. Unlike the mires themselves, shaping and using the landscape is allowed where it does not conflict with preserving the features typical of the mire landscape (Art. 23d NHG): in particular agriculture and forestry, maintaining lawfully built structures, and measures to protect people from natural hazards.

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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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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.

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