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The fauna of Europe is all the animals living in Europe and its surrounding seas and islands. Europe is the western part of the Palearctic realm (which in turn is part of the Holarctic ). Lying within the temperate region , (north of the equator) the wildlife is not as rich as in the hottest regions, but is nevertheless diverse due to the ...
The Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, also known as the Bern Convention (or Berne Convention), is a binding international legal instrument in the field of Nature Conservation, it covers the natural heritage in Europe, as well as in some African countries. The Convention was open for signature on 19 ...
73% of the freshwater fish occurring in the Iberian Peninsula are endemic, the largest out of any region in Europe. [25] Many of these endemic species are concentrated in bodies of water of the central western region ( one exclusively endemic ), these and other bodies of water throughout the Peninsula are mostly temporary and prone to drought ...
An electronic Flora is an online resource which provides descriptions of the associated plants, often also providing identification keys, or partial identification keys, to the plants described. Some Floras point to the literature associated with the plants of the region (flora Malesiana), others seek to show the plants of a region using images ...
The Western European broadleaf forests is an ecoregion in Western Europe, and parts of the Alps. It comprises temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, that cover large areas of France, Germany and the Czech Republic and more moderately sized parts of Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and South Limburg (Netherlands). Luxembourg is also part of ...
The Central European mixed forests ecoregion (WWF ID: PA0412) is a temperate hardwood forest covering much of northeastern Europe, from Germany to Russia. The area is only about one-third forested, with pressure from human agriculture leaving the rest in a patchwork of traditional pasture, meadows, wetlands.
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The country acts as a crossroads with links to Europe, Asia, and the Near East, and many birds use the country as a staging post during migration. Human-made nests for Northern bald ibises in Birecik Loggerhead sea turtle nesting places by the Mediterranean Sea Turkey has a large range of habitat types and a great faunal diversity.