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Biodiversity Hotspots (part 1.)

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Healthy Environments

Global ‘Biodiversity hotspots’ are geographic regions that are extremely rich in species diversity (plant and animal life), yet are threatened with extinction. There are 34 Global Hotspots, encapsulating places like the Galapagos Islands, New Zealand the Amazon and Avon River Basin
The intact habitat contained within these hotspots once covered 15.7 percent Earth's land surface today it only covers 2.3 percent. These ‘hotspots’ are home to at least 150,000 endemic plant species (50 percent of the world's total number of plant species) and nearly 12,000 Birds, Mammals and amphibians (42 percent of the world's total number of terrestrial vertebrates).

Did You Know the Wheatbelt forms part of The Southwest Australia Ecoregion (SWAE), Australia’s only global biodiversity hotspot.

Source Conservation international http://www.conservation.org/where/priority_areas/hotspots/Documents/CI_B...