MOTH (Demonstration of an integrated North-European system for monitoring terrestrial habitats) is a project for the development of methods for monitoring of terrestrial habitats.

Objectives

The objective of the project is to develop an entire system for the monitoring of terrestrial habitats. This is important for the implementation of the EU directive on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora. Every sex years, member states shall draw up a report on the conservation status of the habitat types specified in the directive. Next time this will be done in 2013. MOTH will be able to produce data for the Swedish report.

MOTH is developed in cooperation with existing Swedish monitoring programs, especially the National Inventory of Landscapes in Sweden (NILS) and the Swedish national forest inventory. The goal is to adapt the system to the needs of other member states as well.