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Just 36 places have been designated as biodiversity hotspots. Although they account for just 2.5% of the Earth’s surface, the forests, wetlands and other ecosystems in these hotspots are home to two billion people, including some of the world’s poorest.
Conservationists have identified 36 “biodiversity hotspots,” which are both biologically rich and under severe threat from development and pollution. What are biodiversity hotspots? Hotspots range from the Mediterranean basin to the mountains of Central Asia, and from the islands of the Caribbean to South America’s vast Cerrado.
Mangrove ecosystems are vital biodiversity hotspots that protect millions of people and sequester significant carbon, storing up to five times more carbon per acre than rainforests. The Vida Manglar project in Colombia showcases a community-driven model that conserves 7,500 hectares of mangroves and reinvests 92% of carbon credit revenue back ...
Over the past 20 years, CMAR’s growing successes have seen it double in size, expanding from an initial five marine protected areas to 10 – a formidable cluster that includes renowned biodiversity hotspots such as Cocos Island and the Galapagos Islands and now spans some 2 million square kilometres of ocean.
Yet, vulnerable to both climate change and human intervention, mountain biodiversity is increasingly under threat. Roughly half of the world’s biodiversity hotspots are now located in mountainous regions. These are areas of the Earth with significant levels of biodiversity but threatened to the extent that up to 70% of the original habitat ...
The Japanese archipelago, with its long, undulating terrain from north to south and wide range of climates, is a land of rich variety of living creatures and ecosystems on a global scale. But Japan has also been identified as one of the world's 36 biodiversity hotspots, an area where rich biodiversity is in danger of destruction. Japan's high ...
There are 17 megadiverse countries – nations with extreme biodiversity. The World Economic Forum’s Nature Action Agenda calls for public- and private-sector collaboration to stop biodiversity loss by 2030. World Environment Day is held every 5 June to encourage action to protect and restore the Earth.
That's one of the reasons why a team of scientists from 13 universities and institutions included the Sargasso Sea as one of 10 biodiversity hotspots in the high seas — areas of the ocean outside of national boundaries — that their research indicates should be considered for designation as marine protected areas.
Around 40% of the world’s economy is thought to be contingent on biodiversity. Humans have only discovered and described around 20% of the species on Earth. This means that as much as 80% of life has still to be found – and then protected for future generations.
But biodiversity – the diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems – is declining globally, faster than at any other time in human history. The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things by weight, but humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of all plants .