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SPI: 46.89
Species Protection Index Average: 41
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.
9.74%
of land currently protected
604
total land vertebrate species
0
endemic land vertebrate species
Species of significant conservation interest
Northern Bald Ibis
19
amphibians / 0 endemic
479
birds / 0 endemic
88
mammals / 0 endemic
18
reptiles / 0 endemic
Information on this page was sourced from the CIA World Factbook and the Half-Earth Project Map.