Austria

Austria is home to mountain forests in the Alps, paired with gently sloping terrain. Most of the country is used for human activities, in its majority by rainfed agriculture. Austria has high biodiversity rarity of terrestrial land vertebrates at a global scale. When analysed as single taxons, the rarity of mammals is also high. Challenges to biodiversity include forest degradation; air pollution; water pollution in the Danube River and other rivers and lakes.