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SPI: 79.8
Species Protection Index Average: 41
National Report Card: 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.
28.68%
of land currently protected
627
total land vertebrate species
1
endemic land vertebrate species
Species of significant conservation interest
Alpine Marmot
20
amphibians / 0 endemic
501
birds / 0 endemic
91
mammals / 1 endemic
15
reptiles / 1 endemic
Information on this page was sourced from the CIA World Factbook and the Half-Earth Project Map.