Carnivorous plants
WHS where carnivorous plants can be found in the wild.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Alejandro de Humboldt National Park | includes five species of carnivorous plants, one being the sole Cuban epiphyte Pinguicula lignicola (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Canaima National Park | The vegetation, isolated for millennia on infertile soils, is characterized by endemism and carnivory, eg: Heliamphora spp.,Drosera roraima and Utricularia humboldtii. (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands | Round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) in Kobuleti Strict Nature Reserve. | |
| Everglades | Bladderwort (Utricularia) | |
| Great Barrier Reef | Drosera adelae, native to Hinchinbrook Island | |
| Gunung Mulu | various species of Nepenthes | |
| Kakadu National Park | Yellow bladderwort (Utricularia fulva) | |
| Kinabalu Park | the richest collection in the world for the Nepenthes pitcher plants (five of the thirteen are found nowhere else on earth) which reach spectacular proportions (the largest-pitchered in the world being the endemic Nepenthes rajah: an insectivorous pitcher plant. It is endemic to Mount Kinabalu and neighbouring Mount Tambuyukon in Sabah (wiki) | |
| Mount Hamiguitan | nepenthes hamiguitanensis | |
| Rainforests of the Atsinanana | Nepenthes masoalensis | |
| Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras | local carnivorous pitcher plants can be seen all over the province of Ifugao | |
| Wet Tropics of Queensland | Drosera adelae, Drosera schizandra and Nepenthes mirabilis |
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