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Alpine pastures protected by livestock guardian dogs
The return of large predators to Switzerland has led to the use of livestock guardian dogs on our alpine pastures. Herd guards are used to protect livestock against larger predators (e.g., wolf, bear). The Federal Office for the Environment promotes the protection of the herds with herd protection dogs under the following conditions: the dogs must be well trained and kept (see JSV Article 10 quarter). The Confederation commissioned AGRIDEA to lead the herd protection program. At present about 350 officially recognized herd protection dogs are used in Switzerland. They are stationed on alpine pastures with a high risk of danger by large predators. The majority of the dogs are used to protect sheep and goats, while some are used to protect cow herds. Pastures protected by official herd shelters are collected in this geodataset to be visualized.
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Identification info
- Alternate title
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Alps with livestock guardian dogs
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-05-12T01:25:00
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-01-05
- Citation identifier
- ch.bafu.alpweiden-herdenschutzhunde
Citation identifier
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
- Owner
- Last Name
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BAFU BNL
- Organisation Acronym
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FOEN
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geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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geocat.ch
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opendata.swiss
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- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Opendata OPEN: Open use.
- Denominator
- 25000
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- L Environmental and Nature Protection
- L2 Nature and Landscape protection
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Distribution format
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ESRI File Geodatabase FileGDB (GDB)
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OGC Geopackage (GPKG)
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ESRI File Geodatabase FileGDB (GDB)
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Distributor
- 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.alpweiden-herdenschutzhunde
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OGC:WMS
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WMS-FSDI service, layer "Alps with livestock guardian dogs"
- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.alpweiden-herdenschutzhunde
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OGC:WMTS
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WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Alps with livestock guardian dogs"
- OnLine resource
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Link to description
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WWW:LINK
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Link to description
- OnLine resource
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Download server from geo.admin.ch
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
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Download server from geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
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Link to description
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CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal
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Link to description
- 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
- 2025-05-14T16:05:03.052Z
- Metadata standard name
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GM03_2
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
- Owner
- Last Name
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BAFU BNL
- Organisation Acronym
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FOEN
