22 datasets found

  • Map of potential permafrost distribution

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the potential permafrost distribution in Switzerland based on modelling. In Switzerland, above 2400 metres the ground can be permanently frozen, depending on its...

    Last updated: December 31, 2005

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • map-chart
    • natural-risk
    • permafrost-ecosystem
    • natural-risk-zones
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
  • Federal Inventory of Dry Grasslands of National Importance (DGS)

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Dry grasslands are habitats with a wide variety of species that are marked by agricultural use. In accordance with the Federal Act on Protecting Nature and Cultural Heritage, the...

    Last updated: November 24, 2023

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • biotope
    • inventory
    • arid-land
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Altitudinal vegetation belts in Switzerland for 2085 with less dry future climate

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

    This map shows the altitudinal vegetation belts of forest vegetation in Switzerland for the period 2070-2099 assuming a less dry future climate. The following altitudinal...

    Last updated: September 16, 2021

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • wood
    • forest-ecology
    • forest-resource
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Forest ecoregions

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

    The map shows the Forest Ecoregions. They differ in terms of climatic factors, forest vegetation and altitudinal vegetation belts. The southernmost tip of Ticino is considered to...

    Last updated: June 3, 2020

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • forest-ecology
    • wood
    • forest-resource
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Areas of silver fir

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

    The map shows the areas of silver fir occurrence. In the main area, fir is naturally involved to a considerable extent in the stand development in the upper montane and...

    Last updated: June 3, 2020

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • wood
    • forest-resource
    • forest-ecology
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Modelled altitudinal vegetation belts for 1975

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

    This map shows the altitudinal belts of forest vegetation in Switzerland for the period 1961-1990. The following altitudinal vegetation belts only occur in the southern valleys:...

    Last updated: September 9, 2021

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • forest-ecology
    • forest-resource
    • wood
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Federal Inventory of Fens of National Importance

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    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...

    Last updated: January 1, 2021

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    • WMS
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    • API
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Daytime railway noise exposure

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the daytime railway noise to which the population is exposed. The noise calculation is based on the real emissions of the year 2015. This emissions were calculated...

    Last updated: December 31, 2015

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • e-geoch
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • traffic-noise
    • noise-level
    • noise-immission
    • noise-abatement
    • noise-pollutant
    • noise-effect
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Mapping of Floodplains of National Importance

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

    In order to give cantons the option of taking the protection of floodplains of probable national importance into their own hands as quickly as possible, the Swiss Agency for the...

    Last updated: May 11, 2020

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • 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: November 1, 2017

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • environment
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Federal Inventory of Mire Landscapes of Particular Beauty and National Significance

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Mire landscapes are essentially semi-natural landscapes shaped by mires that are also home to other noteworthy natural and cultural elements. They are the last remaining habitats...

    Last updated: November 1, 2017

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Distribution of ibex colonies

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

    After being resettled in 1906, Alpine (Capra) ibex live in colonies of varying sizes throughout the Alpine region and in the Jura mountains. Because the growth of stocks in...

    Last updated: March 31, 2021

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • wild-animal
    • game-animals
    • species-distribution
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Federal Inventory of Raised and Transition Bogs of National Importance

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    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...

    Last updated: November 1, 2017

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • habitats-and-biotopes
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • 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: June 1, 2017

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    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • API
    • e-geoch
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Daytime road traffic noise exposure

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the daytime road traffic noise to which the population is exposed. The data is based on area-wide model calculations (sonBASE). Switzerland's entire road network,...

    Last updated: December 31, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • HTML
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • e-geoch
    • noise-pollutant
    • noise-effect
    • traffic-noise
    • noise-abatement
    • noise-immission
    • noise-level
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Nighttime road traffic noise exposure

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    The map shows the nighttime road traffic noise to which the population is exposed. The data is based on area-wide model calculations (sonBASE). Switzerland's entire road network,...

    Last updated: December 31, 2015

    • SERVICE
    • WMS
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • HTML
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • noise-abatement
    • noise-effect
    • noise-level
    • noise-immission
    • traffic-noise
    • noise-pollutant
    • human-health-and-safety
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Economic regions NFI

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

    Switzerland is divided into fourteen areas according to the geometry of the data set. They represent different forest growth and economic conditions and represent a refinement of...

    Last updated:

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    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • WMS
    • API
    • RDF XML
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • official-geodata
    • wood
    • forest-resource
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Ramsar sites in Switzerland

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    To protect wetlands, particularly because they are habitats for waterbirds and migratory birds, an international convention was signed in 1971 in Ramsar, Iran. Switzerland ratified...

    Last updated: February 2, 2005

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    • API
    • protected-sites
    • official-geodata
    • e-geoch
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
    • environment
  • Swiss National Park

    Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
    Regions and cities, Environment

    Switzerland’s National Park was created in 1909 through private initiatives. When the Confederation took over, it was officially created on 1 August 1914. The park was expanded...

    Last updated: January 17, 2001

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    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • e-geoch
    • environment
    • protected-sites
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
  • Protection forest regions NFI

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

    According to the geometry of the data set, Switzerland is divided into six areas. They represent different forest growth and protective forest conditions.

    Last updated:

    • SERVICE
    • WMTS
    • ZIP
    • WMS
    • API
    • RDF XML
    • official-geodata
    • conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
    • wood
    • forest-resource
    • fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure