Special Protection Area (WFD RBMP Cycle 3)
This dataset identifies Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in Ireland that contain water-dependent protected species. It is a subset of national SPAs, focusing on sites where species have documented water dependencies, based on detail provided by the National Parks and Wildlife Service. The dataset represents a snapshot compiled for use in Cycle 3 of the Water Framework Directive River Basin Management Plan (WFD RBMP), supporting the identification of protected areas relevant to water management planning. It is maintained by the Marine Institute and published as part of Ireland's national open data portal, data.gov.ie.This dataset represents a subset of Special Protection Areas that have protected water species. Detail on the water dependencies of protected species was provided by National Parks and Wildlife Service. This snapshot was taken of this subset of national SPAs for the purpose of the WFD RBMP Cycle...
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A CKAN-hosted dataset whose resources are file downloads rather than a queryable DataStore, so no column schema could be read automatically. The dataset page lists the downloadable distributions.
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curl -s 'https://data.gov.ie/dataset/special-protection-area-wfd-rbmp-cycle-3.rdf' -H 'Accept: application/rdf+xml'DCAT (RDF/XML) record: title, publisher, freshness and every distribution. This portal disallows /api/ in robots.txt, so this is the route to use.
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