Comoros
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SPI: 43.32
Species Protection Index Average: 42
National Report Card: Comoros
Comoros is a group of volcanic islands in the Indian Ocean, located between Mozambique and Madagascar. Most of the country is used for human activities, in its majority by rainfed agriculture.
Comoros has high biodiversity rarity of terrestrial land vertebrates at a global scale. When analysed as single taxons, the rarity of birds, mammals and reptiles is also high. The rarity of marine mammals is also high. Challenges to biodiversity include deforestation; soil degradation and erosion, which also causes silting of coral reefs.
42%
of land currently protected
84
total land vertebrate species
22
endemic land vertebrate species
Species of significant conservation interest
Livingstone's Fruit Bat
0
amphibians / 0 endemic
50
birds / 13 endemic
10
mammals / 2 endemic
24
reptiles / 7 endemic
Information on this page was sourced from the CIA World Factbook and the Half-Earth Project Map.
