Special Protection Area

The EU Birds Directive (79/409/EEC) requires designation of SPAs for: listed rare and vulnerable species; regularly occurring migratory species, such as ducks, geese and waders; wetlands, especially those of international importance, which attract large numbers of migratory birds each year. (Internationally important means that 1% of the population of a species uses the site, or more than 20,000 birds regularly use the site.) This is a national dataset.

https://data.gov.ie/dataset/special-protection-area?package_type=dataset

https://www.npws.ie/maps-and-data/designated-site-data/download-boundary-data

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