Identification

Title
Woodland Opportunity Map - Potential Habitat for Water Voles
Abstract

Water vole is a Protected Species (Schedule 5, Wildlife & Countryside Act, 1981) and is the fastest declining mammal across the UK. Populations in Wales have declined by 89% since the last estimate in 1995 and the water vole is classed as Endangered in Wales. Threats to the survival of water vole remain unchanged, primarily through loss, degradation and fragmentation of suitable habitat and predation by American mink but also because of pollution and flooding. This layer was developed by using water vole habitat suitability modelling to identify habitats that are likely to be suitable. These were combined with recent survey records to create a connected network of water courses and wetlands (buffered by 50m) indicating areas important to water voles. Woodland creation proposals in these areas should include positive design measures to maintain or enhance suitable habitat. Further information is in GN002.

Licence
Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)

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Publication date
Type
Spatial data
Regions
Global
Approved
Yes
Published
Yes
Featured
No
Group
Land Nature Food

Information

Spatial extent
Projection system
EPSG:27700
Extension x0
173700.0
Extension x1
353800.03125
Extension y0
168800.0
Extension y1
394211.84375

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

Email
data@gov.wales
Organisation
Welsh Government
Department
land nature food

References

Link online
/layers/geonode:wom_watervoles_cleaned_to_100m2
Metadata page
/layers/geonode:wom_watervoles_cleaned_to_100m2/metadata_detail

GeoJSON
Woodland Opportunity Map - Potential Habitat for Water Voles.json
Excel
Woodland Opportunity Map - Potential Habitat for Water Voles.excel
CSV
Woodland Opportunity Map - Potential Habitat for Water Voles.csv
GML 3.1.1
Woodland Opportunity Map - Potential Habitat for Water Voles.gml
GML 2.0
Woodland Opportunity Map - Potential Habitat for Water Voles.gml
DXF
Woodland Opportunity Map - Potential Habitat for Water Voles.dxf
OGC Geopackage
Woodland Opportunity Map - Potential Habitat for Water Voles.gpkg
Zipped Shapefile
Woodland Opportunity Map - Potential Habitat for Water Voles.zip

OWS endpoints

WMS
WFS