National Nature Reserves (Scotland)

The National Nature Reserve (NNR) Partnership awards the NNR accolade to the best places for people to see the best of Scotland’s nature. SNH formally declares the Partnership’s recommended places under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 and the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

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Identification info

Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
2018-05-18
Identifier
NNR
Point of contact
  NatureScot - Data Supply ( Geographic Information Group )
Great Glen House , Inverness , IV3 8NW , United Kingdom
Maintenance and update frequency
Quarterly
Keywords

  • Nature conservation

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Protected sites
Limitations on Public Access
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

no limitation
Spatial representation type
Vector
Distance
5  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Topic category
  • Environment
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Temporal reference

Temporal extent
Begin
1997
End
2011
 
Temporal extent
 
 
Code
EPSG:27700
Code
EPSG:4326
Code
EPSG:4258

Distribution Information

Data format

Data format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

ESRI File geodatabase

GeoJSON

GML

Geopackage
 

Transfer options

Resource Locator
Protocol Resource Locator Name

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities

 		https://ogc.nature.scot/geoserver/protectedareas/ows?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

nnr

OGC:WFS-1.0.0-http-get-capabilities

 		https://ogc.nature.scot/geoserver/protectedareas/wfs?request=GetCapabilities&service=WFS

protectedareas:nnr

WWW:DOWNLOAD:ESRI Shapefile

 		https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/NNR_SCOTLAND_SHP_27700.zip

ESRI Shapefile (EPSG:27700)

WWW:DOWNLOAD:ESRI File geodatabase

 		https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/NNR_SCOTLAND_GDB_27700.zip

ESRI File geodatabase (EPSG:27700)

WWW:DOWNLOAD:GeoJSON

 		https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/NNR_SCOTLAND_GEOJSON_4326.zip

GeoJSON (EPSG:4326)

WWW:DOWNLOAD:Geopackage

 		https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/NNR_SCOTLAND_GPKG_27700.zip

Geopackage (EPSG:27700)

WWW:DOWNLOAD:GML

 		https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/NNR_SCOTLAND_GML_4258.zip

GML (EPSG:4258)

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://opendata.nature.scot/datasets/national-nature-reserves/explore

NatureScot OpenData Hub

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://services1.arcgis.com/LM9GyVFsughzHdbO/arcgis/rest/services/National_Nature_Reserves/FeatureServer/0

ArcGIS Rest FeatureServer

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://ogc.nature.scot/geoserver/www/maps/naturescot-data-viewer.html?layer=protectedareas:nnr

NatureScot Map Viewer
 
 

Data quality info

Quality Scope
Dataset
Conformity
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Explanation
Degree
true
Statement

Since 1981, when SSSIs and NNRs ceased to be mutually exclusive under the terms of the Wildlife and Countryside Act, all NNRs have been notified as SSSIs on the grounds that this is a more effective tool for protecting the nature conservation interest.
 

Metadata

File identifier
16E144E5-4ACC-42B0-AA4A-366F7E8A87B2 XML
Metadata Language
English
Resource type
Dataset
Metadata Date
2023-07-20T14:04:39
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Point of contact

Individual name

Data Supply
Organisation name

NatureScot
Position name

Geographic Information Group
Delivery point

Great Glen House
City

Inverness
Postal code

IV3 8NW
Country

United Kingdom
Electronic mail address

data_supply@nature.scot supply@nature.sco data_supply@nature.scot

Role
Point of contact
Point of contact
  NatureScot - Data Supply ( Geographic Information Group )
Great Glen House , Inverness , IV3 8NW , United Kingdom
https://opendata.nature.scot/search
 
 
 

Overviews

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Protected sites

Publishing Body

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Associated resources (if any)

Not available