Biosphere Reserves (Scotland)
Biosphere Reserves are areas of terrestrial and coastal ecosystems promoting the conservation of biodiversity with sustainable use. Biosphere reserves serve to demonstrate integrated management of land, water and biodiversity.
For more information visit https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/protected-areas-and-species/protected-areas/international-designations/biosphere-reserve
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
- 2007-10-05
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2024-01-15
- Identifier
- BIOSPH
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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Government Category List
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Nature conservation
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Protected sites
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- Limitations on Public Access
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Available under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: © NatureScot (Scottish Natural Heritage). Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (year of download)
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- Other restrictions
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no limitation
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 5 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Topic category
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- Environment
Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- Begin
- 1994
- End
- 2011
Temporal extent
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
ESRI File Geodatabase
KML
GeoJSON
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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There has been only one batch of UK Biosphere Reserves which were nominated by the UK MAB Committee in 1976/7 and accepted by UNESCO.
UNESCO approved the designation of Wester Ross Biosphere Reserve (BR) on 19/03/16. See UNESCO press release at https://en.unesco.org/biosphere/eu-na/wester-ross
2024-01-15 - Galloway & Southern Ayrshire Reserve boundary updated
Metadata
- File identifier
- 3DCF8D17-0057-4D5F-9DAA-67E66D3980E9 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-01-15T21:17:58
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Organisation name
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NatureScot
- Position name
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Geographic Systems & Data Officer
- Voice
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01463 725000
- Delivery point
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Great Glen House, Leachkin Road
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INVERNESS
- Postal code
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IV3 8NW
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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data_supply@nature.scot supply@nature.sco data_supply@nature.scot
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