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SPI: 95.8
Species Protection Index Average: 42
National Report Card: Slovakia
Slovakia is a landlocked country in Central Europe, with mountainous and rugged terrain through much of the country, and lowlands in the south. In Slovakia most of the country is used for human activities, in its majority by rainfed agriculture.
Challenges to biodiversity include air pollution and acid rain; land erosion due by agricultural and mining; and water pollution.
45%
of land currently protected
203
total land vertebrate species
0
endemic land vertebrate species
Species of significant conservation interest
Alpine Chamois
16
amphibians / 0 endemic
112
birds / 0 endemic
65
mammals / 0 endemic
10
reptiles / 0 endemic
Information on this page was sourced from the CIA World Factbook and the Half-Earth Project Map.
