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Crayfish plague – Findings in Switzerland

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

Proof of the crayfish plague in Switzerland: Geo-referenced locations of populations with test results. The most cataclysmic disease for the European species is the crayfish plague...

Last updated: January 12, 2011
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- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Base areas (catchment areas) HADES

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The base areas form the lowest layer of the system of catchment areas that describe Switzerland’s hydrographical structure (Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland, HADES). As many...

Last updated: January 1, 2004
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- GDB
- water-geographic
- atlas
- hydrology
- gewiss
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
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Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Article 5 of the Federal Act of 1 July 1966 on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage (NCHA) orders the Federal Council to compile inventories of sites of national...

Last updated: November 15, 2022
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- e-geoch
- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- environment
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Swiss residual flow maps Supply

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Federal Act of 24 January 1991 on the Protection of Water against Pollution (LPEP) and its provisions on residual flows came into force on November 1, 1992 in Kraft getreten....

Last updated: January 1, 2004
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Vegetation height model NFI

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

Information on the vegetation height is determined using remote sensing methods with active and passive sensors. LiDAR is an active sensor. An optical sensor, for example an aerial...

Last updated: October 31, 2023
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- fise-forest-information-system-for-europe
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- official-geodata
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- wood
- forest-resource
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Cantonal & private gauging stations (HADES 5.1.2)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

This set of data represents the locations of hydrometric gauging stations belonging to cantons (data source: “KANTON”) and private owners (data source: “HADES”). The data was...

Last updated: January 1, 2003
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Hydrological study areas

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Since 1957 the hydrology division of the FOEN has operated a network of hydrological study areas aimed at observing long-term changes in the water regime within Switzerland’s most...

Last updated: January 1, 2013
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Wildlife Passages

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

In einer ersten Phase hat das BAFU anhand der verfügbaren Daten die Wildtierpassagen auf dem Nationalstrassen- und Schienennetz erfasst. Berücksichtigt wurden Kunstbauten, die...

Last updated: August 23, 2023
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- environment
- wild-animal
- fauna
- environmental-monitoring-facilities
- biotope-network
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Biogeographical regions of Switzerland (CH)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The basis for establishing the biogeographical regions (in 6 or 12 classes) were the homogeneous surfaces of the river basins, where relevant and adequately extensive species...

Last updated: March 2, 2004
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- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- nature-conservation
- flora-biology
- fauna
- bio-geographical-regions
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Federal Inventory of Hunting Ban Reserves

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Federal hunting bans have existed since 1875 and served the purpose of raising the populations of chamois, red deer and roe deer as well as ibex (cloven-hoofed game), which had...

Last updated: June 15, 2023
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- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Federal Inventory of Amphibian Spawning Sites of National Importance - Shifting Sites

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

There are currently 19 different amphibian species that live in Switzerland, and nearly all of them are included in the Red List of Threatened Species. The areas that contain...

Last updated: December 1, 2025
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Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies 40 km²

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The "40 km² catchment areas" data set is one of four possible aggregation levels for the "Topographical catchment areas of Swiss waterbodies" geodata set. It consists of a...

Last updated: July 1, 2010
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Federal Inventory of Reserves for Waterbirds and Migratory Birds of international and national importance

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Switzerland is especially important as a wintering and resting site for various migratory waterbirds. As a result, in 1974 the Federal Council signed a convention on watercourses...

Last updated: July 1, 2023
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- environment
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- protected-sites
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Protected areas in the civilian air navigation obstacles publication - Mirelandscapes

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Transport

Under Art. 19 of the Off-Airport Landing Ordinance (AuLaV; SR 748.132.3), protected areas comprise national parks, raised and transition bogs, water and migratory bird reserves,...

Last updated: November 1, 2017
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Tranquillity Areas

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Based on the "Tranquillity Map of the Swiss Plateau" and its calculated "tranquillity" values, certain recreational areas were derived. For this purpose, areas that did not fall...

Last updated: February 10, 2022
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- environment
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- leisure-centre
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- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- tranquility
Interregional wildlife corridor

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

First, known wildlife corridors were recorded from existing data at the cantonal level, and potential corridors were detected by GIS and then divided into wildlife corridors of...

Last updated: February 1, 2025
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Assessment of the Biological Water Status: Macrophytes

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Within the National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NAWA), water quality is recorded jointly by the federal and cantonal authorities at around 100 monitoring stations....

Last updated: March 26, 2014
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Balance areas (catchment areas) HADES

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The balance areas form the middle layer of the system of catchment areas that describe Switzerland’s hydrographical structure (Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland, HADES). They are...

Last updated: January 1, 2004
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Habitat Map of Switzerland

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The dataset maps Swiss habitats according to the TypoCH classification ('Lebensräume der Schweiz', Delarze et al. 2015) area-wide, to at least the second level of detail of the...

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Forest fire prevention measures of the cantons

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

Contains the forest fire prevention measures currently in force in the cantons.

Last updated: November 17, 2022
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- prevention-of-forest-fires
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