The threats

Threats are risk situations for one or more species, and most of them are caused by humans. We want to keep track of all those threats in Galicia and northern Portugal. Every user can record threats to alert the community and relevant authorities. It's as easy as fill a simple form and upload a threat's picture. Once the threat is solved, it changes its status to inactive.

In this map you can see the geolocation of active and inactive threats and filter them by different characteristics: type of threat, location, date, species that are affected by it.. You can see the point marking the origin of a particular threat or of its different sources, and also draw the territory affected by using a polygon. We establish a number of types of threats, to facilitate the task of cataloguing:

• fire.
• works and infrastructure.
• agricultural works.
• extraction activities.
• invasive species.
• vehicle traffic.
• logging.
• aquatic system alterations.
• contamination.
• harvests.
• diseases and pests.
• hunting.
• other vegetation.
• abandonment of traditional uses.
• erosion.
• soil compaction / trampling.
• urbanization.
• summer drought.
• others.

Conservation initiatives

Help us to preserve biodiversity and combat the threats organizing your own conservation initiatives. It is very easy, you can find the form to create it in the section Conservation. There we explain you how to do it.