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The INPN is the national platform for the Natural heritage inventory information system (SINP). As a partnership scheme, the SINP aims to foster a synergy between the participants working for the creation, management, treatment, valorisation, and dissemination of data relating to the natural heritage inventory (biodiversity and geodiversity).
The objective of the SINP is to structure the knowledgebase of biodiversity (both species of fauna, flora and fungi, and also natural or semi-natural habitats) and geodiversity, in order to make this knowledge available to everyone. The SINP covers the entirety of the national territory (mainland and overseas) and encompasses terrestrial, aquatic, and marine fields.
This knowledge, shared in the form of structured data, is particularly useful for the development and monitoring of public policies, for decision making in a democratic framework and for European reports on the monitoring and condition of populations and ecosystems.
Nautilus macromphalus © B. Guichard
Prairies, terrains dominés par des herbacées non graminoïdes, des mousses ou des lichens © O. Roquinarc'h
Failles et plis dans les falaises et sur l’estran du Cap Gris-Nez © P. De Wever
The INPN ensures the management and dissemination of the SINP data at a nation level (observation and monitoring data, aggregate data, descriptive data, reference data).
A partner scheme between the ministry for the environment, the French office for biodiversity (OFB), the National Museum of Natural History, the associations, the territorial authorities, the public and private establishments, and decentralised state services, the SINP is constituted of a network of participants who share the naturalistic information which they hold according to a set of methods and common rules.
General presentation of the INPN programmes including those contributing to the SINP
