Protected areas, animal and plant protection areas

It is possible to protect, for example, nesting birds or seal colonies by prohibiting access to an area during certain months of the year. Most of the just over 1,000 animal protection areas that exist today are located on coasts or lakes and have been established to protect seabirds or seals.This dataset originally comes from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket). We have filtered their dataset so that only data for Umeå municipality is presented.For questions regarding protected areas, please contact the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket).