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At the same time, the historic environment functions of NIEA were transferred to the Department for Communities. NIEA is responsible for a range of protected areas in Northern Ireland, including eight areas of outstanding natural beauty, 47 national nature reserves, 43 special areas of conservation, and 10 special protection areas. The NIEA ...
In Northern Ireland the body responsible for designating ASSIs is the Northern Ireland Environment Agency - a division of the Department of Environment (DoE). Unlike the SSSIs, ASSIs include both natural environments and man-made structures.
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA; initials pronounced as 'Dare-aa') (Irish: An Roinn Talmhaíochta, Comhshaoil agus Gnóthaí Tuaithe; Ulster Scots: Depairtment o' Fairmin, Environment an' Kintra Matthers) is a government department in the Northern Ireland Executive, the devolved administration for Northern Ireland.
The register was developed from 1999, based on an inventory of over 700 sites complied in 1992. [2] A series of ten inclusion criteria are applied, including the site's historic, horticultural, architectural and archaeological importance. [3]
Multi-Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside (MAGIC) is a governmental website in the United Kingdom which provides geographic information, in map form.. Launched in 2002, [1] the site originally only had information for rural areas in England but it has grown to include information on a wide range of landscape and environmental designations in England, Wales and Scotland, and cover ...
Information included in the Atlas includes accurate, seamless maps, documentation, and geospatial data that crosses political borders. This data is displayed as series of interactive map layers in an easy to use map viewer format. Most layers in the North American Environmental Atlas are at a scale of 1:1:10,000,000 or finer. [citation needed]
OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a free, open map database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. [4] Contributors collect data from surveys, trace from aerial photo imagery or satellite imagery, and import from other freely licensed geodata sources.
Land management has preserved the natural characteristics of Hopetoun Falls, Australia while allowing ample access for visitors. The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial. The term is most often applied to Earth or some parts of Earth.