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Monegros camp. The Monegros Desert or Desierto de los Monegros is a semi-desert in Aragón, northeastern Spain, spanning the provinces of Zaragoza and Huesca. It is a semi-arid zone prone to frequent droughts. It is noted for its annual electronic music festival held in mid-July, the Monegros Festival.
Los Monegros is a comarca in Aragon, Spain. It is located within the provinces of Zaragoza and Huesca . The area is prone to chronic droughts, and much of the area is a natural region made up of badlands .
Habitat loss is perhaps the greatest threat to organisms and biodiversity. [40] Temple (1986) found that 82% of endangered bird species were significantly threatened by habitat loss. Most amphibian species are also threatened by native habitat loss, [ 41 ] and some species are now only breeding in modified habitat. [ 42 ]
ARISE is a Dutch scientific research program that aims to completely map biodiversity in the European territory of the Netherlands.In addition, the goal is to set up semi-automatic infrastructure that can identify species using image and sound recognition technology, radar data, and environmental DNA (eDNA).
The Mojave Desert Land Trust is working to scout, catalogue, collect and preserve millions of seeds from 250 species and counting in a race to save an ecosystem.
This type of biodiversity loss is known as one of the most critical threats to global biodiversity. The possible causes include habitat destruction and modification, diseases, exploitation, pollution, pesticide use, introduced species, and ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B). However, many of the causes of amphibian declines are still poorly ...
The Mojave Desert Land Trust is monitoring the York Fire and the nonprofit’s nearly 560 acres within the burn zone in the Mojave National Preserve. York Fire has destroyed biodiverse properties ...
The Global 200 is the list of ecoregions identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (), the global conservation organization, as priorities for conservation.According to WWF, an ecoregion is defined as a "relatively large unit of land or water containing a characteristic set of natural communities that share a large majority of their species dynamics, and environmental conditions".