Biodiversity hotspot
Natural WHS located within a biodiversity hotspot.
"To qualify as a biodiversity hotspot on Myers 2000 edition of the hotspot-map, a region must meet two strict criteria: it must contain at least 0.5% or 1,500 species of vascular plants as endemics, and it has to have lost at least 70% of its primary vegetation". See Biodiversity hotspot.
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Connected Sites
- Aldabra Atoll: Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park: Caribbean Islands
- Archipiélago de Revillagigedo: Mesoamerica
- Atlantic Forest South-East: Atlantic Forest
- Blue and John Crow Mountains: Caribbean Islands
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park: Eastern Afromontane
- Calakmul: Mesoamerica
- Cape Floral Region: Cape Floristic Region
- Central Highlands: Sri Lanka / Western Ghats
- Cerrado Protected Areas: Cerrado
- Chitwan National Park: Eastern Himalaya, Nepal
- Coiba National Park: Mesoamerica
- Darien National Park: Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
- Desembarco del Granma National Park: Caribbean Islands
- Discovery Coast: Atlantic Forest
- Donana National Park: Mediterranean Basin
- Dong Phayayen: Indo-Burma, India and Myanmar
- East Rennell: East Melanesian Islands
- Galapagos Islands: Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
- Garajonay: Mediterranean Basin
- Great Himalayan National Park: Eastern Himalaya, Nepal
- Guanacaste: Mesoamerica
- Gulf of Porto: Mediterranean Basin
- Gunung Mulu: Sundaland
- Göreme NP: Irano-Anatolian
- Ha Long Bay: Indo-Burma, India and Myanmar
- Hawaii Volcanoes: Polynesia-Micronesia
- Henderson Island: Polynesia-Micronesia
- Huanglong: Mountains of Southwest China
- Huascaran National Park: Tropical Andes
- Ibiza: Mediterranean Basin
- Ichkeul National Park: Mediterranean Basin
- Isole Eolie: Mediterranean Basin
- Jiuzhaigou Valley: Mountains of Southwest China
- Kaziranga National Park: Eastern Himalaya, Nepal
- Khangchendzonga National Park: Eastern Himalaya, Nepal
- Kilimanjaro National Park: Eastern Afromontane
- Kinabalu Park: Sundaland
- Komodo National Park: Wallacea
- Lagoons of New Caledonia: New Caledonia
- Lake Malawi: Eastern Afromontane
- Laurisilva of Madeira: Mediterranean Basin
- Los Katios National Park: Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
- Machu Picchu: Tropical Andes
- Macquarie Island: New Zealand
- Maloti Drakensberg: Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
- Malpelo: Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
- Manas Wildlife Sanctuary: Eastern Himalaya, Nepal
- Meteora: Mediterranean Basin
- Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve: Mesoamerica
- Morne Trois Pitons: Caribbean Islands
- Mount Athos: Mediterranean Basin
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha: Mountains of Southwest China
- Mount Etna: Mediterranean Basin
- Mount Hamiguitan: Philippines
- Mount Kenya: Eastern Afromontane
- Mount Nimba: Guinean Forests of West Africa
- Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers: Eastern Himalaya, Nepal
- Ngorongoro: Eastern Afromontane
- Ogasawara Islands: Japan
- Papahanaumokuakea: Polynesia-Micronesia
- Phoenix Islands: Polynesia-Micronesia
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang: Indo-Burma, India and Myanmar
- Pitons Management Area: Caribbean Islands
- Pitons of Reunion: Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
- Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River: Philippines
- Rainforests of the Atsinanana: Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
- Redwood: California Floristic Province
- Rio Abiseo National Park: Tropical Andes
- Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve: Mesoamerica
- Rock Islands: Polynesia-Micronesia
- Rwenzori Mountains: Eastern Afromontane
- Sagarmatha National Park: Eastern Himalaya, Nepal
- Sangay National Park: Tropical Andes
- Shirakami-Sanchi: Japan
- Shiretoko: Japan
- Sian Ka'an: Mesoamerica
- Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries: Mountains of Southwest China
- Simien National Park: Horn of Africa
- Sinharaja Forest: Sri Lanka / Western Ghats
- Skocjan Caves: Mediterranean Basin
- Socotra Archipelago: Horn of Africa
- Sub-Antarctic Islands: New Zealand
- Tajik National Park: Mountains of Central Asia
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves: Mesoamerica
- Taï National Park: Guinean Forests of West Africa
- Te Wahipounamu: New Zealand
- Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: the Valley is noted as a global biodiversity hotspot (AB ev)
- Teide National Park: Mediterranean Basin
- Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng: Indo-Burma, India and Myanmar
- Tikal National Park: Mesoamerica
- Trang An: Indo-Burma, India and Myanmar
- Trang An: Indo-Burma, India and Myanmar
- Tropical Rainforest Sumatra: Sundaland
- Tsingy de Bemaraha: Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
- Tubbataha Reefs: Philippines
- Ujung Kulon National Park: Sundaland
- Vallée de Mai: Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
- Western Caucasus: Caucasus
- Western Ghats: Sri Lanka / Western Ghats
- Western Tien-Shan: Mountains of Central Asia
- Xinjiang Tianshan: Mountains of Central Asia
- Xinjiang Tianshan: Mountains of Central Asia
- Yakushima: Japan
- iSimangaliso Wetland Park: Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
Map of Biodiversity hotspot
Legend
- ●● Cultural
- ●● Natural
- ●● Mixed
- ●● Tentative
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