INSPIRE Geoportal
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
- 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
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Federal Office for the Environment / Biodiversity and Landscape Division
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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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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- Environment
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile (SHP)
ESRI Personal Geodatabase (MDB)
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name MAP:Preview
https://map.geo.admin.ch/?layers=ch.bafu.bundesinventare-flachmoore Preview map.geo.admin.ch
OGC:WMS
https://wms.geo.admin.ch/?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&lang=de ch.bafu.bundesinventare-flachmoore
OGC:WMTS
https://wmts.geo.admin.ch/EPSG/3857/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml?lang=de ch.bafu.bundesinventare-flachmoore
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK
https://www.bafu.admin.ch/moore Moore
WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL
https://data.geo.admin.ch/browser/index.html#/collections/ch.bafu.bundesinventare-flachmoore/items/bundesinventare-flachmoore STAC Browser
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK
https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/de/home/zustand/daten/geodaten/biodiversitaet--geodaten.html#-31476877 BAFU Website
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal
http://map.bafu.admin.ch ESRI:REST
https://api3.geo.admin.ch/rest/services/api/MapServer/ch.bafu.bundesinventare-flachmoore RESTful API from geo.admin.ch
Metadata
- File identifier
- c98723f6-4c76-480b-bada-c8a5ce3d20d8 XML
- 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
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Federal Office for the Environment / Biodiversity and Landscape Division
Point of contact
Metadata author
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French UTF8 Italian UTF8 English UTF8 Romansh UTF8 German UTF8
