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SPI: 90.39
Species Protection Index Average: 41
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.
34.3%
of land currently protected
575
total land vertebrate species
0
endemic land vertebrate species
Species of significant conservation interest
Alpine Chamois
19
amphibians / 0 endemic
456
birds / 0 endemic
87
mammals / 0 endemic
13
reptiles / 0 endemic
Information on this page was sourced from the CIA World Factbook and the Half-Earth Project Map.