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Federal Inventory of Raised and Transition Bogs of National Importance
Raised bogs are some of the most susceptible habitats in Switzerland and are in sharp decline. Today, between 10% and 20% of the original stocks still exist. The scientific inventory of raised bogs was compiled from 1978 to 1984 by the Agricultural Division of the WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research) on behalf of Pro Natura Helvetica. Under Article 18a of the Federal Act of 1 July 1966 on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage (NCHA), which came into force in 1 February 1988, the Federal Council designates the biotopes of national importance, assesses their situation and sets conservation objectives for them. However, this occurs only after the cantons have been heard. As the first federal inventory under Art. 18a NCHA, the Federal Council implemented the raised and transition bog inventory with 514 sites in 1991. It was expanded in 2003 by a second series and revised in 2007, 2017 and 2025. It now has 552 sites.
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
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Raised bogs
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-01
- Date (Creation)
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- ch.bafu.bundesinventare-hochmoore
Citation identifier
- Collective title
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Bundesinventar der Hoch- und Übergangsmoore von nationaler Bedeutung
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Federal Office for the Environment / Biodiversity and Landscape Division
- Voice
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+41 58 462 93 89
Address
- Protocol
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WWW:LINK
- Role
- Point of contact
- Last Name
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BAFU BNL
- Organisation Acronym
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FOEN
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Appraisal AAP
- Duration of conservation
- 100
- Appraisal of archival value
- of archival value
- Reason for archiving value
- Evidence of business practice
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geocat.ch
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official geodata
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opendata.swiss
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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e-geo.ch
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GEMET
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environment
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Protected sites
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Habitats and biotopes
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geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
- Denominator
- 25000
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Topic category
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- L Environmental and Nature Protection
- L2 Nature and Landscape protection
- L1 Environmental protection, Noise
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Basic geodata identifier
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20.1
- Basic geodata identifier type
- Federal
- Distribution format
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ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
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ESRI Personal Geodatabase (MDB)
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ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
()
- OnLine resource
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Preview map.geo.admin.ch
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MAP:Preview
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Preview map.geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.bundesinventare-hochmoore
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OGC:WMS
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WMS-FSDI service, layer "Raised bogs"
- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.bundesinventare-hochmoore
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OGC:WMTS
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WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Raised bogs"
- OnLine resource
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Moore
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WWW:LINK
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Link to description
- OnLine resource
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STAC Browser
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
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Download server from geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
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BAFU Website
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
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Link for download
- OnLine resource
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Link to portal
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CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal
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Link to portal
- OnLine resource
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RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
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ESRI:REST
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RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-20T09:04:04.855Z
- Metadata standard name
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GM03 2+
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
Metadata author
Responsible party
- Organisation name
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Federal Office for the Environment / Biodiversity and Landscape Division
- Voice
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+41 58 462 93 89
Address
- Protocol
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WWW:LINK
- Role
- Point of contact
- Last Name
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BAFU BNL
- Organisation Acronym
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FOEN
Metadata author
Legislation Information
- Country
- Switzerland
- Language
- German
- Language
- French
- Language
- Italien
- Legislation Type
- Other legal text on national level
- Internal Reference
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Anhang 1
- Alternate title
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Geoinformationsverordnung GeoIV
- Date (Creation)
- 2008-05-21
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-07-01
- Name
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SR 510.620
- Other citation details
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Liste aller Geodaten, welche über eine gesetzliche Grundlage auf Bundesebene verfügen.
