MAIISG NEWSLETTER - December 2021

Welcome to the third newsletter of 2021. In this issue, Dinarte Teixeira brings exciting news for the Desertan critically endangered land snails(...)

2016-2017 IUCN Atlantic Island Invertebrate SG Report

In the folowing Link: http://gba.uac.pt/fotos/noticias/1534336212.pdf find the 2016-2017 Atlantic Islands Invertebrate SG Report. This report will(...)

NEWSLETTER July 2024

HI AIISG MEmbers We are excited to share the latest news about ongoing invertebrate projects in the Atlantic Islands. In this newsletter issue, we(...)

Projects

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About Project IUCN SSC Atlantic Island Invertebrates Specialist Group

 The Atlantic Islands are a geographically discrete grouping, where there is a keen interest and enthusiasm for form a group of people interested in furthering invertebrate conservation.  The group covers all Atlantic Islands. Most of these islands have a high level of invertebrate endemism and numerous species of conservation concern.  The issues facing these islands are similar: habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation, invasive species, climate change; and also limited data and lack of(...)

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Threatened Species

The MAIIS Group is building a selection of profiles, where is some of the latest species we have added:

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How many endemic species of arthropods are in Azores?

There are about 250 arthropod species and subespecies endemic to Azores. See also http://sea-entomologia.org/IDE@/revista_5B.pdf