OSPAR Network of Marine Protected Areas (OSPAR)
The convention on the protection of the marine environment in the North-East Atlantic, which entered into force in 1998, has as one of the current priority lines of work the creation of a Network of Marine Protected Areas in the waters covered by the agreement where marine areas that meet certain environmental requirements can be included. To this end, member states have the obligation to propose areas of interest within their respective jurisdictional waters, including the exclusive economic zone or those marine areas where the state exercises its sovereignty. It complements and updates the 1972 Oslo Convention on discharges into the sea and the 1974 Paris Convention on land-based marine pollution. Cíes Islands were incorporated in 2008; in 2009, El Cachucho; in 2014, the rest of the spaces that make up this data set were incorporated, except for the Submarine Cannons of Avilés and Volcanoes of Fango del Golfo de Cádiz, which were incorporated in 2017.
Trust score
How is this computed?Composite of 5 axes from our methodology (proof-based officialness, live verification, metadata completeness, license clarity, agent readiness).
- Officialnessweight 25%50/100
Not public-sector → neutral score; not subject to the proof checker.
- Availabilityweight 25%100/100
Latest verification succeeded.
- Metadata completenessweight 20%40/100
4 of 10 recommended metadata fields populated.
- License clarityweight 15%50/100
License info not yet tracked for APIs (datasets only).
- Agent readinessweight 15%10/100
Topic tags assigned
Data access
Serves rendered map images, not a downloadable table — so there is no tabular schema. The service's GetCapabilities document lists the available map layers.
Verification Status
Using the API
Configuration
- Base URL
- https://geoserver.iepnb.es/geoserver/convenio_internacional/OSPAR/wms?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Query examples
curl -s 'https://geoserver.iepnb.es/geoserver/convenio_internacional/OSPAR/wms?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS' -H 'Accept: application/json'Base API endpoint — see the documentation for available routes.