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Biodiversity hotspots identify conservation priorities

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THE HOTSPOTS ARE:

AMERICAS:

  • Tropical Andes
  • Tumbes-Choc-Magdalena (Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
  • Atlantic Forest (Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina)
  • Cerrado (Brazil)
  • Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests
  • Mesoamerica (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico)
  • Caribbean Islands
  • California Floristic Province
  • Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands (Mexico, U.S.) (NEW)

AFRICA:

  • Guinean Forests of West Africa
  • Cape Floristic Region (South Africa)
  • Succulent Karoo (South Africa, Namibia)
  • Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
  • Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa
  • Eastern Afromontane (NEWLY DISTINCT AND SIGNIFICANTLY EXPANDED)
  • Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany (South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique) (NEW)
  • Horn of Africa (NEW)

EUROPE AND AFRICA:

  • Mediterranean Basin

ASIA:

  • Caucasus
  • Western Ghats and Sri Lanka (India, Sri Lanka)
  • Mountains of Southwest China
  • Sundaland (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei)
  • Wallacea (Indonesia)
  • Philippines
  • Himalaya (NEWLY DISTINCT)
  • Indo-Burma
  • Irano-Anatolian (NEW)
  • Mountains of Central Asia (NEW)
  • Japan (NEW)

OCEANIA:

  • Southwest Australia
  • New Caledonia
  • New Zealand
  • Polynesia-Micronesia (includes Hawaii)
  • East Melanesian Islands (NEW)

The threats to the hotspots include: habitat destruction; invasive species; direct human exploitation of species for food, medicine, and the pet trade; and climate change, which magnifies the effects of habitat destruction and fragmentation.

The latest analysis offers mixed news about existing hotspots. On one hand, some hotspots have deteriorated significantly: a notable example is Southeast Asia's Sundaland, whose forest loss has been driven large
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Contact: Luba Vangelova
L.Vangelova@conservation.org
202-912-1294
Conservation International
2-Feb-2005


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