Quebec Wildlife Protection District Administrative Boundaries

Territorial boundaries of wildlife protection districts in Quebec represent the administrative areas covered by the Direction Générale de la Protection de la Faune du Québec. The dataset is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec and was last updated on 2026-04-22. It is available in multiple geospatial formats including SHP, GEOJSON, and GPKG.

Use Cases

• Map wildlife protection district jurisdictions based on the described administrative boundaries.
• Analyze spatial coverage and adjacency of protection districts for resource planning.
• Integrate district boundaries with other ecological datasets for habitat management studies.

Strengths

• Available in multiple interoperable geospatial formats (SHP, GEOJSON, GPKG, FGDB/GDB, SQLITE).
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Sourced directly from the Government and Municipalities of Québec.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Likely compiled for administrative purposes by the Direction Générale de la Protection de la Faune du Québec.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 18:11:24.816034; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Quebec, Canada