SWITZERLAND · DESIGNATIONS · INTERNATIONAL
Smaragd-Gebiete
What this layer shows
Switzerland's Emerald sites: the network of areas of special conservation interest under the Council of Europe's Bern Convention, the counterpart of Natura 2000 outside the European Union. Switzerland has created no legal basis of its own for it; the sites are protected through existing instruments such as the biotope inventories, hunting-ban areas and forest reserves, whose boundaries do not match the Emerald sites.
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Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU), opendata.swiss: freie Nutzung
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Bundesamt für Umwelt (BAFU), opendata.swiss: freie Nutzung
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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.