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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
Identification info
- Alternate title
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Fens
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-01
- Date (Creation)
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- ch.bafu.bundesinventare-flachmoore
Citation identifier
- Collective title
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Bundesinventar der Flachmoore 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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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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- 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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21.1
- 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
)
Preview map.geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.bundesinventare-flachmoore
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OGC:WMS
)
Flachmoore
- OnLine resource
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ch.bafu.bundesinventare-flachmoore
(
OGC:WMTS
)
WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Fens"
- OnLine resource
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Moore
(
WWW:LINK
)
Link to description
- OnLine resource
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STAC Browser
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
)
Download server from geo.admin.ch
- OnLine resource
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BAFU Website
(
WWW:LINK
)
Link for download
- OnLine resource
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Link to portal
(
CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal
)
Link to portal
- OnLine resource
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RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
(
ESRI:REST
)
RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata language
- Deutsch
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-07-18T10:23:08.176Z
- 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
