Identification
- Title
- Woodland Opportunity Map - Red Squirrel Areas
- Abstract
Red squirrels are a Protected Species (Schedule 5, Wildlife & Countryside Act, 1981) and are classified as Endangered in Wales. They are now restricted to a small number of isolated populations, predominately in mid and north Wales where they occur in both coniferous and broadleaved woodland as well as mixed forests, parks and gardens. Within these areas the population is stable due to local reinforcement programmes and management prescriptions to control the non-native grey squirrel, the primary cause of the decline in red squirrel in the UK. Woodland creation schemes in areas identified as important for red squirrel should take into account measures which maintain the habitat in favour of red squirrels. Further information is available in GN002.
- Licence
- Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)
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Copyright:
- Publication date
- 18 February 2025
- Type
- Spatial data
- Regions
- Global
- Approved
- Yes
- Published
- Yes
- Featured
- No
- Group
- Land Nature Food
Information
- Spatial extent
- Projection system
- EPSG:27700
- Extension x0
- 263714.03125
- Extension x1
- 309901.71875
- Extension y0
- 241123.625
- Extension y1
- 362625.53125
Features
- Purpose
<p>This dataset has been created for the Woodland Opportunity Map (WOM) only, and may not reflect the most current dataset.</p>
- Spatial Representation Type
- Vector data is used to represent geographic data
Contact
- data@gov.wales
- Organisation
- Welsh Government
- Department
- land nature food
References
- Link online
- /layers/geonode:wom_red_squirrel_areas
- Metadata page
- /layers/geonode:wom_red_squirrel_areas/metadata_detail
- Zipped Shapefile
- Woodland Opportunity Map - Red Squirrel Areas.zip
- GeoJSON
- Woodland Opportunity Map - Red Squirrel Areas.json
- Excel
- Woodland Opportunity Map - Red Squirrel Areas.excel
- CSV
- Woodland Opportunity Map - Red Squirrel Areas.csv
- GML 3.1.1
- Woodland Opportunity Map - Red Squirrel Areas.gml
- GML 2.0
- Woodland Opportunity Map - Red Squirrel Areas.gml
- DXF
- Woodland Opportunity Map - Red Squirrel Areas.dxf
- OGC Geopackage
- Woodland Opportunity Map - Red Squirrel Areas.gpkg