IUCN SSC Atlantic Island Invertebrates Specialist Group

Atlantic Islands Invertebrate Specialist Group newsletter nº7 - APRIL 2022

HOW MANY HOGNA SPECIES ARE IN MADEIRA ARCHIPELAGO?    By Luís Crespo   The already well known Hogna ingens (Blackwall, 1857) is only one of(...)

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(...)

Report 2018 is Available

See the report of our 2018 activities at: http://www.maiisg.com/fotos/publicacoes/1576776849.pdf  

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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 Canary islands archipelago?

 There are about 2898 arthropod species and subespecies endemic to Canary islands. See also http://sea-entomologia.org/IDE@/revista_4.pdf