Wir freuen uns über jede Rückmeldung. Ihre Botschaft geht vollkommen anonym nur an das Administrator Team. Danke fürs Mitmachen, das zur Verbesserung des Systems oder der Inhalte beitragen kann. ACHTUNG: Wir können an Sie nur eine Antwort senden, wenn Sie ihre Mail Adresse mitschicken, die wir sonst nicht kennen!
unbekannter Gast
Anzeigen

Gefährdete Tierarten#

Animals, Endangered species of: In Austria 186 species are considered to have died out, been exterminated or to have disappeared, and 425 species as threatened by extinction. At present a total of 2,038 species are endangered, a further 580 species are potentially endangered due to their rareness. Among the vertebrates 34 species have died out, been extirpated or have disappeared; 57.2 % of their remaining species are endangered to a varying degree (amphibians: 100 %, reptiles: 92 %, fish: 58 %, birds: 55 %, mammals: 46 %).


The main causes of the endangering of species are the expansion and cultivation of land in agriculture and forestry by modern methods, mass tourism and the extensive use of chemicals.

Literature#

Rote Listen gefaehrdeter Tiere Oesterreichs (Red lists of endangered species in Austria), ed. by the Ministry for the Environment, 1983ff.

Back to the Austrian Version