Nationalpark Hohe Tauern

Since 2007, the Day of Biodiversity has been held in the Hohe Tauern National Park. Each year it highlights one aspect of the research landscape of biodiversity. During two days of tracking in midsummer, around 70 to 90 experts from different disciplines set out to record the animal and plant world found in the Hohe Tauern National Park on a voluntary basis. On average, 4,200 records covering 1,500 species are reported during a single Day of Biodiversity. The reports confirm the important role of the Hohe Tauern National Park as a refuge for rare and sometimes extremely endangered species.

The Day of Biodiversity is a good way to monitor biodiversity systematically as temporal and spatial research focal point, especially in a large protected area. The interdisciplinary nature of this event makes it possible to consider not only traditionally well-studied groups of organisms but also less obvious groups. There is hardly an event of the like where the joy of discovery can be combined so well with the useful collection of conservation-relevant data. So far, around 43,000 data records have been collated during the various Days of Biodiversity.