About the Nature Protection Information System

The basic activities of the State Institute for Nature Protection are aimed at organising and coordinating the inventorization and monitoring of the state of biodiversity. Within this framework, the Institute collects, processes and compiles data on the state of nature, drafts reports, keeps databases and prepares expert bases for the protection of individual components of biological and landscape diversity.

In order to ensure that the compiled and organised data serve as a joint foundation for the creation, organisation and planning of nature conservation tasks, since 2004, the State Institute for Nature Protection has carried out a series of activities within its regular tasks and international projects in order to establish a single nature protection information system.
The obligation to create such a system is laid down in the Nature Protection Act (Art. 68) by which "the Institute keeps the Nature Protection Information System (NPIS) as part of a single information system of the Ministry, according to internationally accepted standards and obligations".

Over the years, the Institute has taken over the regular maintenance of certain databases owned by the Ministry of Culture (GIS databases: Protected Areas in Croatia and the Map of Habitats in Croatia) and has coordinated the creation of several thematic databases pertaining to nature protection. Several are available HERE.