Main Goal

Studies about invertebrate populations and protection of endangered invertebrates.

Objectives

• faunistical and ecological studies of invertebrate population;
• evaluation of invertebrate population of National Parks;
• to set up a complex database and to use it for documenting the necessity for protection of important habitats;
• obtaining protected status for rare or endangered invertebrate species.

Activities, results

• we organized the 5th World Conference of the Hungarian Arachnologists with 35 participants;
• we evaluated the arthropod (araneae and carabidae) populations of the Tinovul Mohos and we wrote several articles and thesis from the data;
• we presented several shows to students in order to involve them in the research and conservation activities.

For the future

• to continue research in the Tinovul Mohos and to edit a multimedia CD with the flora and fauna of this protected site;
• to improve our database;to analyze materials collected in the previous years;
• to discover new species for the science and for the Romanian fauna; ecological evaluation of some study areas, using bioindicator species;
• to continue education and raising public awareness.