'Nordic biodiversity is losing ground' - New report

The report 'State of biodiversity in the Nordic countries' was recently released by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Some of the authors are from ALTER-Net partner institutes.

The report shows that biodiversity has declined in the Nordic countries since 1990. In particular, farmland, mire, grassland and heathland habitats show declines in biodiversity. The report concludes that it is highly unlikely that the target of halting biodiversity loss by 2010 can be achieved by the Nordic countries.

Please find the 130-pages report attached below. It contains the main findings and recommendations from the NordBio2010 project.

According to project manager, Bo Normander, these results should be perceived as a first attempt to make an overall assessment of biodiversity in the Nordic countries. "We believe that if further efforts were directed towards scrutinising existing and historic monitoring programmes and data sources, additional indicators could be calculated and hence a better knowledge base would be achieved".

The report is available here.