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Environmental information systems
Share of country designated as terrestrial protected area and the overlap between Natura 2000 or Emerald sites and national designations
Chart (static)
Note
The overlap for Norway and Switzerland relates to Emerald Network sites. For all other countries the overlap relates to Natura 2000 sites. Statistics on national designations are based on data reported by EEA countries to the Nationally designated areas (CDDA) database.
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Data sources
Metadata
More info
- Nationally designated areas (CDDA) , European Environment Agency (EEA)
- Natura 2000 data - the European network of protected sites , European Commission
- Swiss Emerald network sites, Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
- Norwegian Emerald network sites, CEEweb for Biodiversity
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
2016
2019-2020
Temporal coverage
- CDDA: Reported April 2020
- Natura 2000: Reported 2019
- Emerald: Reported 2016
Methodology
Reference data to obtain share of protected country area:
- SQL database: ONAGER
- database: ProtectedAreas
- table: ref.REF_country_info_39_countries