ZNIEFF2 2019 – Continental Ecological, Wildlife and Floristic Interest Areas

Zones of ecological, fauna and floristic continental interest ZNIEFF – Type 2 The National Survey for the Inventory of Natural Areas of Ecological, Fauna and Floristic Interest (ZNIEFF) was conducted from 1982 to 1995. Building on this state of play of natural spaces with high heritage value, and aware that nature is constantly changing, a modernisation survey was launched in 1997 (for the regions that responded to the original survey as soon as possible) and is due to be completed in 2012. Once completed, the new investigation replaces and cancels the previous one. Generally and respectively designated as first and second generation surveys, the modus operandi of the future new survey will evolve towards a permanent and continuous inventory, updating information on existing areas while allowing the possible description of new areas. The website of the National Inventory of Natural Heritage (INPN) already incorporates this announced change. It displays the inventory of first generation ZNIEFFs for regions that have not completed the survey for the second generation ZNIEFF inventory.It displays the inventory of second generation ZNIEFFs as well as any updates to this new inventory, for regions that have already completed their modernisation survey. The national map of the continental ZNIEFF inventory integrates this generational element by distinguishing between the first generation inventory and the second generation inventory, always distinguishing, within each generation, the zones of type 1 (delimited on the basis of a single large type of ecological medium) and the zones of type 2 (delimited on the basis of ecological assemblages, in a notion of general natural functioning and landscapes). Dates of completion of the first generation national survey: 1982-1995 Digitisation dates of first generation contours (regional files): 1985-1992 (minor corrections up to 1995) Dates of completion of the second generation national survey: 1997-2012 Digitisation dates of second generation contours (regional files): 1999-2012 Merging regional files under ArcInfo (national layer constitution):2011 There are no ZNIEFF1-sea and ZNIEFF2-sea in the Basque Country (Ecologic, faunistic and floristic areas in the marine environment). Source: Database created by the National Museum of Natural History <HTTPS://INPN.MNHN.FR/TELECHARGEMENT/CARTES-ET-INFORMATION-GEOGRAPHIQUE/NAT/NATURA>