Ramsar Wetland of International Importance (Scotland)
Ramsar sites are classified to meet the UK's commitments under the Ramsar Convention. The UK's ratification also extends to its Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. These sites comprise of globally important wetland areas and may extend into the marine environment.
Default
Identification info
- Alternative title
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Ramsar site
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2024-01-23
- Identifier
- RAMSAR
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Quarterly
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Protected sites
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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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
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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
- 2001
- End
- 2011
Temporal extent
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
ESRI File geodatabase
KML
Geopackage
GeoJSON
GML
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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Wetlands are areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static or flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine water. Waterfowl are birds ecologically dependent on wetlands.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 63FEF99D-FA1B-4946-B794-DFCB4ABB3BF2 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-09-18T12:03:36
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Individual name
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Data Supply
- Organisation name
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NatureScot
- Position name
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Geographic Information Group
- Delivery point
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Great Glen House
- City
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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
- Role
- Point of contact