The California Conservation Easement Database (CCED) contains lands protected under conservation easements. It is a parallel data set to the California Protected Areas Database (CPAD), which covers protected areas owned in fee. The first version of the CCED database was released in April 2014, the latest update is from June 2025. CCED is maintained and published by GreenInfo Network (www.greeninfo.org). GreenInfo Network publishes CCED twice annually.

This geospatial layer is a spatial index for the CED (Conservation Efforts Database https://conservationefforts.org/), serving as a spatial framework for summary reports by area (a.k.a. polygon). In addition, this SRU (Sagebrush Reporting Unit) data is an option for data providers to provide spatial ambiguity to alleviate concerns of too much spatial detail representing private landowners’ efforts efforts and to protect Personally Identifiable Information. This option allows CED data providers to pick a predetermined SRU instead of submitting the explicit effort boundary. These SRUs are large enough to provide spatial ambiguity and obscure private landowner locations. This SRU data is in the format of a GIS polygon layer and is an aggregate of USGS partner’s lek cluster layer, BLM HAF data modified by Oregon, Idaho layers, and CED development team modification for CED purposes.

The National Conservation Easement Database (NCED) is the first national database of conservation easement information, compiling records from land trusts and public agencies throughout the United States. This public-private partnership brings together national conservation groups, local and regional land trusts, and local, state and federal agencies around a common objective. This effort helps agencies, land trusts, and other organizations plan more strategically, identify opportunities for collaboration, advance public accountability, and raise the profile of what’s happening on-the-ground in the name of conservation.For an introductory tour of the NCED and its benefits check out the story map.

Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) are those which have been given greater protection under The Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) Regulations 1995 (Northern Ireland) (as amended). They have been designated because of a possible threat to the special habitats or species which they contain and to provide increased protection to a variety of animals, plants, and habitats of importance to biodiversity both on a national and international scale. All of the SAC sites chosen under The Conservation (Natural Habitats, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (as amended) are collectively known as the UK national site network which is a network of protected areas across the EU, which forms part of a wider international Emerald Network of Areas of Special Conservation Interest. The sites are chosen according to scientific criteria to ensure favourable conservation status of each habitat type and species. ‘Favourable conservation status’ means managing the site to ensure the special habitats and species are healthy.

The Conservation Practice Effectiveness Database compiles information on the effectiveness of a suite of conservation practices. This database presents a compilation of data on the effectiveness of innovative practices developed to treat contaminants in surface runoff and tile drainage water from agricultural landscapes. Traditional conservation practices such as no-tillage and conservation crop rotation are included in the database, as well as novel practices such as drainage water management, blind inlets, and denitrification bioreactors. This will be particularly useful to conservation planners seeking new approaches to water quality problems associated with dissolved constituents, such as nitrate or soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP), and for researchers seeking to understand the circumstances in which such practices are most effective. Another novel feature of the database is the presentation of information on how individual conservation practices impact multiple water quality concerns. This information will be critical to enabling conservationists and policy makers to avoid (or at least be aware of) undesirable tradeoffs, whereby great efforts are made to improve water quality related to one resource concern (e.g., sediment) but exacerbate problems related to other concerns (e.g., nitrate or SRP). Finally, we note that the Conservation Practice Effectiveness Database can serve as a source of the soft data needed to calibrate simulation models assessing the potential water quality tradeoffs of conservation practices, including those that are still being developed. This database is updated and refined annually. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: 2019 Conservation Practice Effectiveness (CoPE) Database. File Name: Conservation_Practice_Effectiveness_2019.xlsxResource Description: This version of the database was published in 2019.

SACs in terrestrial areas and marine areas out to 12 nautical miles are afforded protection through the Conservation (Natural Habitats, and c.) Regulations 1994 (as amended). Possible Special Areas of Conservation (pSAC) At Consultation stage may be subject to change prior to submission.

This hosted feature layer has been published in RI State Plane Feet NAD 83. Non-State Conservation lands are real property permanently protected from future development by fee simple ownership, conservation or other restrictive easements, or deed restrictions held or enforceable by recognized land protection organizations other than the State of Rhode Island. These include, but are not limited to, the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, The Nature Conservancy, RI municipal governments, The United States Fish & Wildlife Service, private land trusts and other conservation groups. In addition to permanent legally conserved land, a number of properties documented in this dataset are included in a category called "Conservation Intent." This designation applies to areas such as local parks, recreation areas, or lands associated with cluster sub-division developments that are not strictly protected by a fee simple or easement interest held by a recognized conservation organization. Instead they are considered protected by the good-will of the owners (both municipal and private) to prevent or restrict future development beyond the existing use.

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a conservation NGO working globallly and in PNG

This graph shows the number of members by national environmental and conservation organizations in 2005-2006. The Sierra Club had 778,830 members.

This hosted feature layer has been published in RI State Plane Feet NAD 83. Approximate edges of Conservation Lands protected by the State of Rhode Island through Fee Title Ownership, Conservation Easement, or Deed Restriction. Includes: Wildlife Management Areas, Drinking Water Supply Watersheds, State Parks, Beaches, Bike Paths, Fishing Access Areas, Local Parks and Recreation Facilities that have been developed with State Grant Funds.

Please visit the User Guide to learn about using the Conservation Opportunities Modeler.

CA Nature supports the California Natural Resources Agency’s goals for equitable access for all, the conservation of the state’s biodiversity, and expanding the use of nature-based solutions to address climate change.

The Conservation Opportunities Modeler uses a technique called a Weighted Raster Overlay (WRO) to evaluate multiple factors simultaneously. You can select layers from almost 50 layers in library, assign a weight to each selected layer, and then a scores to the available variables. These are then combined to show the range of combined values across the landscape, whether high or low based on your assigned weights.

Data libraries are available to explore opportunities for access for all, biodiversity, climate mitigation and adaptation, as well as opportunities that integrate across multiple challenges. After your model is complete, run it online and explore the results through interactive summaries and comparison against data from CA Nature or other sources.

Use the Conservation Opportunities Modeler to explore opportunities through building your own scenarios.

[Metadata] Description: Conservation District Subzones as of 2011. Source - DLNR/DOFAW, State Land Use CommissionSource: The Conservation District Subzones were extracted from the LUD95 layers. Subzones are administered by the Department of Land and Natural Resources Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands (OCCL). The Conservation Districts are administered by the State Land Use Commission. The Conservation District Subzone boundaries depicted in these files are not official and are representations for presentation purposes only. A determination of the official subzone boundaries should be obtained through the Dept. of Land and Natural Resources. Revised, Feb. 2011 by the State Land Use Commission.Apr. 2024: Hawaii Statewide GIS Program staff removed extraneous fields that had been added as part of the 2016 GIS database conversion and were no longer needed.For additional information, please refer to complete metadata at https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/gis/data/cdsubzn.txt or contact Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, State of Hawaii; PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846; email: gis@hawaii.gov; Website: https://planning.hawaii.gov/gis.

Local planning authorities are responsible for designating conservation areas, though Historic England and the Secretary of State also have powers to create them. This dataset also contains the boundaries of conservation areas from Historic England, as well as other data found on data.gov.uk and currently contains a number of duplicate areas we are working to remove. We are also working with a group of local planning authorities to help them publish their conservation areas, and to develop a data specification for conservation areas. Historic England provide guidance to help householders understand the implications of living in a conservation area for planning applications.

The names and conservation statuses of Queensland flora, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and some fish and invertebrate groups based on the Department of Environment and Science's WildNet database.

The Conservation status of Queensland wildlife report can be accessed to visualise the data.

Species profile search can be used to locate species information such as nomenclature and current statuses (by name or a taxonomy search) approved for release from the WildNet database.

ACE is a CDFW effort to analyze large amounts of map-based data in a targeted, strategic way, and expressed visually, so decisions can be informed around important goals like conservation of biodiversity, habitat connectivity, and climate change resiliency. The ACE maps provide a coarse level view of information for conservation planning purposes, ranging from ecological research and modeling to local land-use planning and conservation decision-making. However, they do not replace the need for site-specific evaluation of biological resources and should not be used for regulatory purposes.

The National Conservation Lands Database contains data on the location and nature of private lands protected and/or managed for conservation purposes in Australia. This data set was created as part of a collaborative project between the data contributors and the Australian Government. The project was governed by a Steering Committee with representatives from five of the nine data contributors listed below. These acronyms are used in the remainder of the data. The program that contributed the data is described in the Completeness section of the metadata.DEC: Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation DECCW: New South Wales Department of Environment, Climate Change and WaterDEH: South Australia Department of Environment and Heritage - now the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and Natural ResourcesDERM: Queensland Department of Environment and Resource ManagementDPIPWE: Tasmania Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and EnvironmentNCT: New South Wales Nature Conservation Trusts Covenanting program NRETAS: Northern Territory Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport Covenanting ProgramNTA WA: The National Trust of Australia (WA) TFN: Trust For Nature (Victoria) This 2009 (first) version of the database includes the majority of high security mechanisms operating on private land in Australia, where conservation is the sole or key objective. The data set contains all agreements from the inception of the program through which they were delivered to (and including) those established on the 30 June 2009. The department intends to annually update the database.The database contains:- an NCLD_DESC table - that contains descriptions of each agreement- an NCLD_POLY feature class - that contains all the agreement polygons- a NCLD_LABEL layer - that contains one point for each agreement that fits within an agreement polygon- a NCLD_OVERLAP_POLY feature class -that contains all agreement polygons that overlapped higher level agreement polygons. This is explained below.The polygons in this data set represent the land subject to private land conservation agreements. Each agreement is uniquely identified by AGREMT_ID. There are two polygon layers associated with the database. The principle layer is called the NCLD_POLY feature class and contains polygons of the location of the agreements. Where there are overlapping agreements, the most secure agreement is represented in the polygon layer and those agreements that were of lower security and overlapped, have been removed from the agreement polygon layer and stored in the NCLD_OVERLAP_POLY feature class. The NCLD_POLY feature class and the NCLD_OVERLAP_POLY feature class attribute table that the AGREMT_ID and few other fields. The descriptive details of each agreement are stored in the NCLD_DESC table including the GIS_AREA for the convenience of calculating statistics. This text table can be linked to the polygon layers for GIS analysis. The attributes of the NCLD_DESC table are described in the Attribute Accuracy section of this metadata. Many of the attributes are the same as those used in the Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database .In order to facilitate topology checking and analysis the NCLD_POLY feature class does not contain overlapping polygons. Overlapping agreements do occur in practice, where there is more than one agreement legally still in place at a time. To capture this information the polygon data has been processed to represent the highest security agreement at any one location in the agreements polygon layer. Agreements that are completely displaced by a higher security agreement have the value in the OVERLAP field in the text table, a GIS_AREA of 0 (zero) and the entire polygon represented only in the NCLD_OVERLAP_POLY feature class. Agreements that are only partially displaced have the displaced portion of the polygon(s) in the NCLD_OVERLAP_POLY feature class. In the agreements text table the partially displaced agreements will have the reduced value in the OVERLAP field and a GIS_AREA is the area of the remaining polygon in the NCLD_POLY feature class.All the overlaps in this version of the database occurred within the DECCW agreements. A hierarchy of highest to lower level agreements was decided in collaboration with DECCW. TYPE = Conservation Agreements were agreed to have the highest protection value, being in perpetuity, registered on title and as the agreement contains a broader range of conservation measures. TYPE = Registered property agreements were ranked the middle security level as these were registered on title and the agreements had more restricted conservation scope. The lowest level agreements were considered to be TYPE = Wildlife Refuge, as these were not registered on title and of an indefinite term and contained the lowest level of restrictions on activities and conservation measures that had to be adopted as part of the agreement compared to the other two types.The way that agreements were mapped differed between authorities and agreement types. Some types only mapped the high conservation value portion of a land parcel whereas others mapped the entire title or property or nearly the whole title and subdivided into zones with one a conservation or protected zone. For example a WA Department of Environment and Conservation Covenant does not have any zones and only covers the conservation or protected area. In contrast, a Trust for Nature Victoria Conservation Covenant is subdivided into three zones; Modified Land, Domestic Area and Protected Area.Programs that map only the high conservation value portion of a land parcel are those that have AUTHORITY of DEC, NCT, DEH, DPIPWE (most agreements) and DECCW (where TYPE is Conservation Agreement or Registered Property Agreement). In the case of AUTHORITY = NTA WA AND TYPE = National Trust Covenants the entire property is mapped and subdivided into farmland and bushland zones. In the case AUTHORITY = DECCW AND TYPE = Wildlife Refuge , the whole title was mapped (the high conservation value area is delineated on a map filed with the agreement -but not mapped in their spatial database). DERM and VIC TFN map either the entire property or part of the property and use zones to differentiate between the conservation area and areas where less restricted activity can take place. Examples of DERM Nature Refuge zone types are conservation, domestic, infrastructure, agriculture, restoration. A few DPIPWE Conservation Covenants contain zones. This data set only maps the area of the whole agreement, and does not delineate zones. Therefore although the area of the conservation part of the agreement could be the same between a DEC agreement and a NTA WA agreement, the GIS_AREA will be higher for the NTA WA agreement that also includes farmland. GIS_AREA will be higher for programs that map a larger area in addition to the high conservation value area.NOTE: This item refers to a dataset with restricted access. The related metadata is available for download as a Word document as necessary. Additional information about this dataset or requests for access to the data should be directed to geospatial@dcceew.gov.au

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