GERMANY · DESIGNATIONS · NATURA 2000
Vogelschutzgebiete (Natura 2000)
What this layer shows
Special Protection Areas classified under Article 4 of the Birds Directive 2009/147/EC. They form part of the Natura 2000 network and are subject to the same § 34 BNatSchG appropriate assessment as the Habitats Directive sites. SPAs and SACs overlap widely but are not coextensive: both layers have to be checked separately.
Publisher and licence
European Environment Agency · EEA standard re-use policy
© European Environment Agency, EEA standard re-use policy
Where the data comes from
ARCGIS · bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu
Merestone asks this service live for the area on screen. Nothing is copied or stored beyond a short cache.
This layer is drawn from the European Environment Agency's annual return of what Germany reports, not from a live service of the national body itself. A boundary changed this year appears here when the next return is published.
Facts shown for each feature
Site code · Area (ha) · As of
In these presets
Natura 2000
The Natura 2000 network in Germany: Habitats Directive sites and Special Protection Areas, nationwide, from the harmonised European return. This is the free set the map opens with anywhere in Germany, and the point at which every appropriate assessment under § 34 BNatSchG begins.
Protected areas
Every area-based protection at once: Natura 2000, nature and landscape protection areas, national parks, national natural monuments and biosphere reserves with their three zones, plus the nature parks and Ramsar sites the European return leaves out. The nature parks come per state or from the BfN's national register, the Ramsar sites from some states only.
Data search
Where an ecological consultant or a planning office starts: the protected-site network, the small designations (natural monuments and protected landscape components), the biotopes protected by law, the Annex I habitat types with their critical loads, and the species records. The small designations and biotopes are available where that state publishes them openly.