strategy
Conserving ecoregions
Synonyms:
Protecting biomes Context:
Ecoregions are relatively large areas of land or water that harbour a characteristic set of species, communities, dynamics and environmental conditions. An ecoregion is usually classified under one major habitat type, but may encompass multiple habitat types.
Implementation:
Biodiversity is not evenly distributed around the world. WWF has identified the most outstanding terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecoregions have been identified on which to focus conservation efforts. Using representation as the guiding principle, they identified the Global 200 -- truly outstanding examples of the major habitat types in each of the Earth's biogeographical realms and ocean basins, such as the Neotropics, the Paleoarctic, and the Indian Ocean. The selection criteria included species richness; levels of endemism; higher taxonomic uniqueness ([eg] unique genera or families, or primitive species lines); unusual ecological or evolutionary phenomena (such as large-scale migrations); and the global rarity of the major habitat type.
Narrower:
Conserving fynbos ecoregionConserving Red Sea fog woodlandsConserving Beni savanna ecoregionConserving Daurian steppe ecoregionConserving Llanos savanna ecoregionConserving Guayanan forest ecoregionConserving Chilean matorral ecoregionConserving Sudanese savanna ecoregionConserving Kaokoveld desert ecoregionConserving Bolivian lowland dry forestConserving low Arctic tundra ecoregionConserving Yungas rainforest ecoregionConserving Hawaii dry forest ecoregionConserving tallgrass prairie ecoregionConserving Napo moist forest ecoregionConserving New Zealand tropical forestsConserving Macronesian forest ecoregionConserving Ethiopian highland ecoregionConserving North Andean paramo ecoregionConserving Guinea moist forest ecoregionConserving Hawaii moist forest ecoregionConserving Hainan Island forest ecoregionConserving Congo coastal forest ecoregionConserving Central Asian desert ecoregionConserving Varzea flooded forest ecoregionConserving Madagascar dry forest ecoregionConserving Socotra Island desert ecoregionConserving Sulawesi moist forest ecoregionConserving East African moorland ecoregionConserving Taimyr coastal tundra ecoregionConserving Canadian boreal taiga ecoregionConserving Horn of Africa desert ecoregionConserving Moluccas moist forest ecoregionConserving Andaman Islands forest ecoregionConserving Taiwan montane forests ecoregionConserving Tibetan plateau steppe ecoregionConserving Galapagos Islands scrub ecoregionConserving Mexican pine-oak forest ecoregionConserving Sri Lankan moist forest ecoregionConserving Madagascar spiny desert ecoregionConserving Madagascar moist forest ecoregionConserving Philippine moist forest ecoregionConserving Panatal flooded savanna ecoregionConserving Sonoran and Baja Desert ecoregionConserving Sumatran montane forest ecoregionConserving Choco-Darin moist forest ecoregionConserving Chukotsky coastal tundra ecoregionConserving Sahelian flooded savanna ecoregionConserving New Caledonia dry forest ecoregionConserving New Guinea montane forest ecoregionConserving Brazilian Atlantic forest ecoregionConserving Zambesian flooded savanna ecoregionConserving New Guinea lowland forest ecoregionConserving Western Ghats moist forest ecoregionConserving Eastern Arc montane forest ecoregionConserving Western Congo Basin forest ecoregionConserving Queensland tropical forest ecoregionConserving Altai-Sayan montane forest ecoregionConserving Southern Congo Basin forest ecoregionConserving Southern Mexican dry forest ecoregionConserving Rio Negro-Juru moist forest ecoregionConserving South Pacific island forest ecoregionConserving Annamite Range moist forest ecoregionConserving East African coastal forest ecoregionConserving New Caledonian moist forest ecoregionConserving Angolan escarpment woodland ecoregionConserving East African acacia savannah ecoregionConserving Eastern India monsoon forest ecoregionConserving East African highland forest ecoregionConserving Everglades flooded grassland ecoregionConserving Gulf of Guinea island forest ecoregionConserving Cerrado woodland and savanna ecoregionConserving Northeast Congo Basin forest ecoregionConserving Pacific temperate rainforest ecoregionConserving Sierra Nevada conifer forest ecoregionConserving Greater Antillean pine forest ecoregionConserving Southwest Amazon moist forest ecoregionConserving Greater Antilles moist forest ecoregionConserving Central Borneo montane forest ecoregionConserving Albertine Rift highland forest ecoregionConserving Tasmanian temperate rainforest ecoregionConserving Northern Andean montane forest ecoregionConserving Valdivian temperate rainforest ecoregionConserving Chihuahuan and Tehuacan desert ecoregionConserving Zambesian Woodland and savanna ecoregionConserving Nansei Shoto Archipelago forest ecoregionConserving Maputaland-Pondoland dry forest ecoregionConserving Patagonian steppe and grassland ecoregionConserving Eastern Himalayas alpine meadow ecoregionConserving Central China temperate forest ecoregionlConserving Southern European montane forest ecoregionConserving coastal Venezuela montane forest ecoregionConserving Northern Corillera boreal forest ecoregionConserving Terai-Duar savanna and grassland ecoregionConserving South Island temperate rainforest ecoregionConserving Russian far east temperate forest ecoregionConserving California chapparal and woodlands ecoregionConserving Arabian fog woodland and shrubland ecoregionConserving Southeast China subtropical forest ecoregionConserving Sudd flooded grassland and savanna ecoregionConserving Alaskan north slope coastal tundra ecoregionConserving Eastern Australia temperate forest ecoregionConserving Klamath-Siskiyou coniferous forest ecoregionConserving Kayah-Karen/Tenasserim moist forest ecoregionConserving Lesser Sundas dry and monsoon forest ecoregionConserving Namib and Karoo desert and shrubland ecoregionConserving Kamchatka boreal taiga and grassland ecoregionConserving Northern Borneo-Palawan moist forest ecoregionConserving Scandinavian alpine tundra and taiga ecoregionConserving Mediterranean shrubland and woodland ecoregionConserving Ural Mountains boreal forest and taiga ecoregionConserving Zambesian montane savanna and woodland ecoregionConserving Talamancan and Isthmian Pacific forest ecoregionConserving Northeast India and Myanmar hill forest ecoregionConserving Appalachian and mixed mesophytic forest ecoregionConserving Seychelles and Mascarene Islands forest ecoregionConserving Sumatran-Nicobar Islands lowland forest ecoregionConserving southeastern conifer and broadleaf forest ecoregionConserving Northern Australian and Trans-Fly savanna ecoregionConserving Australian sandy desert and central range ecoregionConserving Southwest Australian shrubland and woodland ecoregionConserving Northern Indochina subtropical moist forest ecoregionConserving South African montane grassland and shrubland ecoregionConserving Eastern Himalayan broadleaf and conifer forest ecoregionConserving Malaysian peninsular lowland and montane forest ecoregionConserving Mt Kinabalu montane and alpine scrub and forest ecoregionConserving Caucasus and northeast Anatolia temperate forest ecoregionConserving Central Asian mountain temperate forest and scrub ecoregionConserving Tumbesian and north inter-Andean valley dry forest ecoregionConserving Central and Eastern Siberian boreal forest and taiga ecoregionConserving New Guinea outer islands/Solomon Islands moist forest ecoregionConserving New Guinea outer islands/Solomon Islands moist forest ecoregion Organizations:
World Wide Fund for Nature Subjects:
Conservation → Conservation Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
