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The federal environmental authority. It is responsible for ensuring that natural resources are used sustainably, that the public is protected against natural hazards, and that the environment is protected from unacceptable adverse impacts.

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Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Total Phosphorus

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Within the National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NAWA), water quality is recorded jointly by the federal and cantonal authorities at around 100 monitoring stations....

Last updated: March 26, 2014
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Water status monitoring stations CH

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The data set represents the monitoring stations where the water status is recorded. The cantons are responsible for water protection enforcement, as they are for other...

Last updated: March 1, 2013
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- human-health-and-safety
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- water
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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- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
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- game-animals
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- species-distribution
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Assessment of the Biological Water Status: Macrophytes

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Within the National Surface Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NAWA), water quality is recorded jointly by the federal and cantonal authorities at around 100 monitoring stations....

Last updated: March 26, 2014
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Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Solidago gigantea

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring...

Last updated: April 2, 2015
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Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Solidago canadensis

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring...

Last updated: April 2, 2015
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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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- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
National Long-Term Surveillance of Swiss Rivers

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The National River Monitoring and Survey Programme (NADUF) tracks the concentrations of substances occurring in selected Swiss watercourses. NADUF, launched in 1972, is a project...

Last updated: December 7, 2022
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Monthly rainfall erosivity (R-factor) maps of Switzerland in MJ mm ha⁻¹ h⁻¹ month⁻¹, December

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Monthly rainfall erosivity maps (R-factor maps) of Switzerland with a spatial resolution of 100 m. The maps show the spatial and seasonal variability of rainfall erosivity in MJ...

Last updated: February 27, 2020
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- precipitation-enhancement
- soil-erosion
- erosion-control
- erosion
- soil
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
Balance areas (catchment areas) HADES

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The balance areas form the middle layer of the system of catchment areas that describe Switzerland’s hydrographical structure (Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland, HADES). They are...

Last updated: January 1, 2004
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Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Reynoutria japonica

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring...

Last updated: April 2, 2015
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Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Elodea canadensis

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring...

Last updated: April 2, 2015
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Monthly rainfall erosivity (R-factor) maps of Switzerland in MJ mm ha⁻¹ h⁻¹ month⁻¹, May

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Monthly rainfall erosivity maps (R-factor maps) of Switzerland with a spatial resolution of 100 m. The maps show the spatial and seasonal variability of rainfall erosivity in MJ...

Last updated: February 27, 2020
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- erosion
- erosion-control
- soil-erosion
- soil
- precipitation-enhancement
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
Inventory of quaking bogs

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The inventory of quaking bogs in Switzerland contains discovered primary quaking bogs of a specific minimum size with transition and raised bog characteristics (83 bogs). This...

Last updated: January 1, 1990
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- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- inventory
- bryophyte
- bog
- species-distribution
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Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area Bunias orientalis

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

The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring...

Last updated: April 2, 2015
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- environment
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Invasive alien plants - map of the potential area N.N.

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

The set of invasive alien plants shows the maps of the potential areas of 56 alien plants species present in Switzerland as well as some invasive species present in neighboring...

Last updated: October 8, 2015
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- environment
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Current drought hazard level

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The drought warning map shows the current drought hazard (issued at levels 1, 2 and 4) for all regions of Switzerland. The hazard level results from a weekly expert assessment of...

Last updated: November 25, 2024
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- water-geographic
- lake
- atmospheric-precipitation
- flowing-water
- hydrology
- agriculture
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Current drought situation in Switzerland

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the combined drought index for each region. This index summarises in one value the various factors affecting drought: precipitation, modelled soil moisture and...

Last updated: November 25, 2024
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- lake
- atmospheric-precipitation
- agriculture
- flowing-water
- hydrology
- water-geographic
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Tranquillity Areas

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Based on the "Tranquillity Map of the Swiss Plateau" and its calculated "tranquillity" values, certain recreational areas were derived. For this purpose, areas that did not fall...

Last updated: February 10, 2022
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- environment
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- leisure-centre
- space-provided-for-waters
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- tranquility
Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Uranium

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Interpolierte Uran-Konzentrationen (mg/kg Feinerde) in den Oberböden (0–20 cm) der Schweiz. Für die Ordinary Kriging Interpolationen (1 km x 1 km) wurden Messdaten von insgesamt...

Last updated: June 30, 2023
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- heavy-metal-load
- biogeochemistry
- interpolation
- toxic-metal
- atlas
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- confederation
- soil-properties
- soil-mapping
- soil

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