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Federal Inventory of Fens of National Importance
Fens are vestiges of earlier natural and cultural landscapes and are in sharp decline. They are home to highly-adapted symbiotic communities of plants and animals that include a large number of endangered plant and animal species. The scientific fen inventory was conducted from 1987 to 90 by a work group on behalf of the FDHA. Under Art. 18a of Article 18a of the Federal Act of 1 Juli 1966 on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage (NCHA), 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. In 1994, the Federal Council implemented the Fen Ordinance with the federal inventory, whose first series contained 728 sites. Its second series with 364 sites followed in 1997, and the third and final series with 71 sites in 1998. Some of the sites were revised in 2001, 2004, 2007, 2017, 2021 and 2025. The inventory now contains 1371 Objects.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Fens
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-01
- Date (Creation)
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00
- Identifier
- ch.bafu.bundesinventare-flachmoore
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 25000
- Topic category
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- L Environment
Extent
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Duration of Conservation
- 100
- Appraisal of Archival Value
- A
- Reason for Archiving Value
- Evidence of business practice
- geocat.ch
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official geodata
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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e-geo.ch
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opendata.swiss
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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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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
Associated resource
- Title
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Bundesinventar der Flachmoore von nationaler Bedeutung
- Association Type
- Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- 8859 Part 1
- Subtopic Category
- L2 Nature and Landscape Protection
- Subtopic Category
- L1 Environmental Protection, Noise
- Basic Geodata
- true
- Basic Geodata ID
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21.1
- Basic Geodata Legal Level
- Federal
- Distribution format
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ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
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ESRI Personal Geodatabase (MDB)
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Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Vorschau map.geo.admin.ch
Preview map.geo.admin.ch
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.bundesinventare-flachmoore
Flachmoore
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.bundesinventare-flachmoore
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Fens"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Moore
Link to description
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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STAC Browser
Download server from geo.admin.ch
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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BAFU Website
Link for download
Digital transfer options
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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RESTful API von geo.admin.ch
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- c98723f6-4c76-480b-bada-c8a5ce3d20d8
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Rumantsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/c98723f6-4c76-480b-bada-c8a5ce3d20d8
- Date info (Creation)
- 2011-10-12T14:56:02Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-06-04T17:51:40.383671Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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eCH-0271
