Federal Office for the Environment FOEN

The federal environmental authority. It is responsible for ensuring that natural resources are used sustainably, that the public is protected against natural hazards, and that the environment is protected from unacceptable adverse impacts.

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Natural water balance for the whole of Switzerland and important large catchment areas

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Environment

The water balance includes the main components of the water cycle. The FOEN calculates the water balance for Switzerland and its large river basins every year. The water balance...

Last updated: December 31, 2024
- XLS
- water
Grosse Hochwasserabflüsse in der Schweiz

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Environment

Verzeichnis grosser Hochwasserabflüsse in schweizerischen Einzugsgebieten, zusammengestellt von der Scherrer AG im Auftrag des BAFU. Daten ab 1900, einzelne Werte von früher.

Last updated: December 7, 2018
- ODS
- high-water
National priority species

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Environment

This publication presents the 2025 updated list of priority species at the national level. National priority is based on both the degree of threat at the national level and...

Last updated: July 14, 2025
- XLS
National priority species

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Environment

Die Liste der National Prioritären Lebensräume ergänzt die Liste der National Prioritären Arten. Die Priorität ergibt sich aus dem Gefährdungsgrad sowie der Verantwortung, welche...

Last updated: June 30, 2025
- XLS
Restwassersanierung nach Art. 80 ff. GSchG

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Environment

Gemäss Art. 46 Abs. 1 GSchG hat der Bund die Aufgabe, das GSchG und somit auch den Vollzug der Restwassersanierung nach Art. 80 ff. GSchG zu beaufsichtigen. Ebenso ist er gemäss...

Last updated: December 31, 2020
- XLS
- water
Areas of silver fir

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Regions and cities, Environment

This dataset has no description

Last updated: June 3, 2020
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- wood
- forest-resource
- forest-ecology
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
National Ecological Network REN, wetland site

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

This dataset has no description

Last updated: February 14, 2011
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- environment
- habitats-and-biotopes
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Luftqualität Schweiz (Jahreswerte)

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Health, Environment

This dataset has no description

Last updated: August 8, 2016
- ODS
Federal Inventory of Reserves for Waterbirds and Migratory Birds of international and national importance

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Switzerland is especially important as a wintering and resting site for various migratory waterbirds. As a result, in 1974 the Federal Council signed a convention on watercourses...

Last updated: July 1, 2023
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- e-geoch
- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- migratory-bird
- environment
- waterfowl
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Federal Inventory of Fens of National Importance

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Fens are vestiges of earlier natural and cultural landscapes and are in sharp decline. They are home to highly-adapted symbiotic communities of plants and animals that include a...

Last updated: January 1, 2021
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- official-geodata
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- e-geoch
- environment
- protected-sites
- habitats-and-biotopes
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Federal Inventory of Amphibian Spawning Sites of National Importance - Shifting Sites

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

This dataset has no description

Last updated: November 1, 2017
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- official-geodata
- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- environment
- habitats-and-biotopes
- protected-sites
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Reaches surveyed - cross section securing point

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The map shows the reaches of watercourses which are currently surveyed periodically under the leadership of the FOEN. They are usually surveyed every 10 years or after major floods...

Last updated: March 3, 2025
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- natural-hazard
- hazard
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- official-geodata
Alpine Floodplains outside of the federal inventary

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

As past of the systematic inventory of flood plains, properties that were until recently not evaluated as having national significance will also be included in the federal...

Last updated: July 4, 2019
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- environment
- e-geoch
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
- biotope
- space-provided-for-waters
Alpine pastures protected by livestock guardian dogs

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The return of large predators to Switzerland has led to the use of livestock guardian dogs on our alpine pastures. Herd guards are used to protect livestock against larger...

Last updated: October 3, 2024
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Federal Inventory of Amphibian Spawning Sites of National Importance - Shifting Sites

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

There are currently 19 different amphibian species that live in Switzerland, and nearly all of them are included in the Red List of Threatened Species. The areas that contain...

Last updated: November 1, 2017
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- official-geodata
- e-geoch
- conservation-and-archiving-planning-aap---confederation
- environment
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Cobalt

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Interpolierte Element-Konzentrationen (mg/kg Feinerde) in den Oberböden (0–20 cm) der Schweiz. Für die Ordinary Kriging Interpolationen (1 km x 1 km) wurden Messdaten von insgesamt...

Last updated: June 30, 2023
- WMTS
- WMS
- HTML
- SERVICE
- soil
- soil
- interpolation
- heavy-metal
- toxic-metal
- atlas
- biogeochemistry
- soil-properties
- confederation
- soil-mapping
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Windstorm: Gusts at return period 50 years

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

Last updated: November 7, 2014
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- natural-risk-analysis
- natural-risk
- air-movement
- wind
- storm
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Windstorm: Dynamic Pressure at return period 300 years

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The Windstorm Risk Maps show peak wind gusts and their dynamic pressure and the corresponding uncertainties. The maps provide a country-wide basis for the estimation of the...

Last updated: November 7, 2014
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- HTML
- API
- natural-risk
- natural-risk-analysis
- air-movement
- wind
- storm
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Base areas (catchment areas) HADES

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

The base areas form the lowest layer of the system of catchment areas that describe Switzerland’s hydrographical structure (Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland, HADES). As many...

Last updated: January 1, 2004
- SERVICE
- WMS
- WMTS
- API
- SHP
- water-geographic
- gewiss
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure
Geochemical soil atlas of Switzerland: Iron

Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Regions and cities, Environment

Interpolierte Element-Konzentrationen (mg/kg Feinerde) in den Oberböden (0–20 cm) der Schweiz. Für die Ordinary Kriging Interpolationen (1 km x 1 km) wurden Messdaten von insgesamt...

Last updated: June 30, 2023
- HTML
- WMS
- WMTS
- SERVICE
- soil
- soil
- interpolation
- heavy-metal
- atlas
- biogeochemistry
- toxic-metal
- confederation
- soil-mapping
- soil-properties
- fsdi-federal-spatial-data-infrastructure

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