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SPI: 42.92
Species Protection Index Average: 42
National Report Card: Switzerland
Switzerland is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The Alps Mountains dominate the country’s landscape, along with several large lakes. Switzerland is home to the Rhine River source. In Switzerland most of the country is used for human activities, in its majority by rangeland.
Challenges to biodiversity include air pollution; water pollution; soil contamination and erosion.
28%
of land currently protected
228
total land vertebrate species
0
endemic land vertebrate species
Species of significant conservation interest
Northern Bald Ibis
17
amphibians / 0 endemic
119
birds / 0 endemic
77
mammals / 0 endemic
15
reptiles / 0 endemic
Information on this page was sourced from the CIA World Factbook and the Half-Earth Project Map.
