Denmark has over 30,000 plant and animal species due to its varied climate and location between the North Sea and Baltic Sea. However, many species are threatened - a 2004 assessment found that 27% of Denmark's species had disappeared or were threatened. Key losses in the 20th century included meadow and heath birds like the white stork and black grouse. While conservation efforts aim to protect vulnerable species like orchids and butterflies, ongoing monitoring shows population declines for many birds, hares and deer.
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Denmark has over 30,000 plant and animal species due to its varied climate and location between the North Sea and Baltic Sea. However, many species are threatened - a 2004 assessment found that 27% of Denmark's species had disappeared or were threatened. Key losses in the 20th century included meadow and heath birds like the white stork and black grouse. While conservation efforts aim to protect vulnerable species like orchids and butterflies, ongoing monitoring shows population declines for many birds, hares and deer.
Denmark has over 30,000 plant and animal species due to its varied climate and location between the North Sea and Baltic Sea. However, many species are threatened - a 2004 assessment found that 27% of Denmark's species had disappeared or were threatened. Key losses in the 20th century included meadow and heath birds like the white stork and black grouse. While conservation efforts aim to protect vulnerable species like orchids and butterflies, ongoing monitoring shows population declines for many birds, hares and deer.
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Denmark has over 30,000 plant and animal species due to its varied climate and location between the North Sea and Baltic Sea. However, many species are threatened - a 2004 assessment found that 27% of Denmark's species had disappeared or were threatened. Key losses in the 20th century included meadow and heath birds like the white stork and black grouse. While conservation efforts aim to protect vulnerable species like orchids and butterflies, ongoing monitoring shows population declines for many birds, hares and deer.
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Denmark Nature & Greenery
Denmark is the threshold between the Atlantic region and the continent, between the saline North Sea and the brackish waters of the Baltic Sea. Although Denmark is a small country, the climate is changeable, with considerable regional differences. Denmark is the natural home for a large number of plants and animals - around 30,000 species in all.
Red-listed species in Denmark
In 2004, the National Environmental Research Institute updated Denmark's Red List of threatened species, now with a total of 2,465 species of Danish fungi, insects, spiders, birds, etc. In the 2004 evaluation,` specialists found 678 out of 2,465, or 27 per cent of Denmark's species to have either disappeared or to be threatened to a greater or lesser extent. 66 species have disappeared from Denmark since 1850, whereas 93 are evaluated as critically endangered. A total of 1,455 species are considered free from threat and for the last 196 species data is insufficient to make an evaluation.
For the 20th century as a whole, the great losers were the birds living on meadows and heaths such as the white stork, and black grouse. Black grouse no longer breed in Denmark and nor do white stork. There were 2,000 breeding pairs of white storks at the beginning of the 20th century. Finding food is difficult for this much-loved bird because many of the ponds are gone, and with these the amphibians the stork feeds on.
Birds The graph shows the changes in the total population of northern lapwing, barn swallow, and Eurasian skylark from 1976 to 2004. The overall development also includes populations of corn bunting and grey partridge.
Source: Danish Ornithological Association's bird point source count
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Small Animals The graph shows hunting bags of hare, partridge, and roe deer from 1941 to 2003 and serves as an indicator for the development trends for the population of these species in the open countryside.
Source: National Environmental Research Institute (NERI)
Butterflies The graph shows the distribution of the 79 species of Danish butterfly. The species have been divided into four groups according to how common they were between 1900 and 1963. The most common quarter of species has increased since 1963, while the rarest species have declined.
Source: Danish Forest and Nature Agency
The four maps show the occurrence and distribution in 10x10 UTM squares of Otter from national monitoring in Denmark in 1984-1986, 1991, 1996, and 2004.
ORCHIDS The figure shows the conservation status for broad-leaved marsh orchid, exemplified via this orchid type's status at Almstofte, a location in the County of West Zealand. The Broad-leaved marsh orchid is found in about 800 locations throughout Denmark, making it the most common wild orchid in Denmark. Considered across all localities, the broad-leaved marsh orchid is in decline.
