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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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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: November 16, 2020
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Assessment of the Chemical Water Status: Nitrite

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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Production 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 five areas, namely Jura, Central Plateau, Pre-Alps, Alps, and the southern side of the Alps. They represent...

Last updated: November 16, 2020
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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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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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Basis for determining Q347 flow rate

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Water Protection Act specifies how appropriate residual flows can be determined. This applies to new water withdrawals and also to existing withdrawals for which concessions...

Last updated: January 1, 2000
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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: November 15, 2022
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Map of seismic subsoil categories according to the standard SIA 261

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The site class is a required indication to determine the seismic action for a structure according to the building code SIA 261. The maps of site classes are indicative maps and are...

Last updated: August 13, 2025
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Cantonal & private gauging stations (HADES 5.1.2)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

This set of data represents the locations of hydrometric gauging stations belonging to cantons (data source: “KANTON”) and private owners (data source: “HADES”). The data was...

Last updated: January 1, 2003
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Warning Forest Fire Danger

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

The FOEN's forest fire danger warning contains the general daily forest fire danger based on meteorological data and the resulting forest fire indices.

Last updated: November 17, 2022
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River Typology for Switzerland

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The typology of rivers groups the diversity of Swiss rivers according to abiotic, physiographic criteria, not considering anthropogenic impacts. They are a basis for assessment of...

Last updated: January 1, 2013
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Forest fire prevention measures of the cantons

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

Contains the forest fire prevention measures currently in force in the cantons.

Last updated: November 17, 2022
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Map of past earthquakes in Switzerland and neighbouring regions

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

ECOS09 is the earthquake catalogue of Switzerland and bordering regions. It integrates the following sources: - Macroseismic Earthquake Catalogue of Switzerland (MECOS 02) with...

Last updated: April 28, 2011
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Pro Natura: Nature Preserves

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Pro Natura sichert mit Verträgen über 770 Naturschutzgebiete in der Schweiz mit einer Gesamtfläche von rund 270 km2. Aus unterschiedlichen Gründen dürfen öffentlich nur 763 Gebiete...

Last updated: December 31, 2022
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Assessment of the Biological Water Status: Fish

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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Swiss Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (SwissPRTR)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

SwissPRTR is the publicly accessible Swiss Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. It provides information about releases of pollutants and transfers of wastes from facilities and...

Last updated: July 9, 2025
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Base areas (catchment areas) HADES

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The base areas form the lowest layer of the system of catchment areas that describe Switzerland’s hydrographical structure (Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland, HADES). As many...

Last updated: January 1, 2004
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Alpine Floodplains outside of the federal inventary

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

As past of the systematic inventory of flood plains, properties that were until recently not evaluated as having national significance will also be included in the federal...

Last updated: July 4, 2019
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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, 2020
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Ramsar sites in Switzerland

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

To protect wetlands, particularly as habitats for waterbirds and waders, a convention of international importance was signed in 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar. Switzerland...

Last updated: February 2, 2005
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