Old Forest Growth Sites Under the Dutch NH2020 Environmental Regulation

Dutch geospatial data delineating areas of old forest growth as part of the NH2020 Environmental Regulation. The regulation was adopted on 16 November 2020 under Decision No. 1477251/1478383. The dataset is provided by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is available in WFS, PNG, and WMS formats.

Use Cases

• Monitor compliance with forest protection policies based on the defined scope of the NH2020 regulation.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of old-growth forest sites based on the provided geospatial boundaries.
• Integrate conservation area data into land-use planning models based on the official regulatory scope.

Strengths

• Data is tied to a specific legal framework (NH2020 Environmental Regulation, Decision No. 1477251/1478383).
• Provided in multiple standard geospatial formats (WFS, PNG, WMS) for interoperability.
• Sourced from an authoritative government body (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and last update date are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Likely defined and published as part of the statutory NH2020 Environmental Regulation.

Time Range

Regulation adopted on 16-11-2020; dataset temporal coverage is unspecified.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Netherlands