Common Database on Designated Areas

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The Common Database on Designated Areas (Engl., Shortly CDDA , dt. Joint database of designated sites ) is a database of officially designated protected area such. B. nature reserves, landscape protection areas, national parks u. in Europe .

The 1999 launched database is a joint project of the European Environment Agency (Engl. European Environment Agency - EEA ), the Council of Europe (English. Council of Europe and the) United Nations Environment Program World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC) .

The database is divided into a national part and an international part. The national part of Member States of the EU or the EEA via the European Environment Information and Observation Network (Engl. European Environment Information and Observation Network - EIONET ) updated. The data maintenance for the national part for non-EEA members and the international part takes place via the systems of the UNEP-WCMC.

The database follows the scheme of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and the United Nations guidelines to ensure comparability with similar databases worldwide, in particular the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA, dt. World Database on Protected Areas ) to ensure.

The database can be accessed from the Internet via the European Nature Information System (EUNIS) website .

Up to now , marine protected areas , such as those of the Marine Protected Areas in the Atlantic Arc (MAIA) , are often not recorded in the CDDA . Integration is sought.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Environmental Terminology and Discovery Service. (No longer available online.) European Environment Agency, archived from the original on December 21, 2015 ; Retrieved July 17, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Eionet Data Dictionary. View dataset definition: CDDA. European Environment Agency, accessed July 17, 2012 .
  3. ↑ EUNIS sites: Common Database on Designated Areas. Eionet - European Topic Center on Biological Diversity, accessed July 17, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Welcome to EUNIS biodiversity database - find species, habitats and sites across Europe. European Environment Agency, accessed July 17, 2012 .
  5. ↑ An ongoing process. MAIA, accessed June 2, 2015 .