Global 200

The Global 200 is the list of ecoregions identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) as priorities for conservation. According to the WWF, an ecoregion is defined as a "relatively large unit of land or water containing a characteristic set of natural communities that share a large majority of their species, dynamics, and environmental conditions (Dinerstein et al. 1995, TNC 1997)."

The WWF assigns a conservation status to each ecoregion in the Global 200: critical or endangered; vulnerable; and relatively stable or intact. Over half of the ecoregions in the Global 200 are rated endangered.

Afrotropic

• Guinean moist forests
• Congolian coastal forests
• Cameroon Highlands forests
• Northeastern Congolian lowland forests
• Central Congolian lowland forests
• Western Congolian moist forests
• Albertine Rift montane forests
• East African Coastal Forests
• Eastern African montane forests
• Madagascar lowlands and subhumid forests
• Seychelles and Mascarene Islands moist forests

Australasia

• Sulawesi moist forests
• Moluccas moist forests
• Southern New Guinea lowland forests
• New Guinea montane forests
• Solomons-Vanuatu-Bismarck moist forests
• Queensland tropical rain forests
• New Caledonia moist forests
• Lord Howe-Norfolk Islands forests

Indomalaya

• South Western Ghats montane rain forests and moist deciduous forests
• Sri Lanka moist forests
• Northern Indochina Subtropical moist forests
• Southeast China-Hainan moist forests
• Taiwan montane forests
• Annamite Range moist forests
• Sumatran Islands lowland and montane forests
• Philippines moist forests
• Palawan moist forests
• Kayah-Karen/Tenasserim moist forests
• Peninsular Malaysian lowland and montane forests
• Borneo lowland and montane forests
• Nansei Shoto Archipelago forests
• Eastern Deccan Plateau moist forests
• Naga-Manipuri-Chin hills moist forests
• Cardamom Mountains moist forests
• Western Java montane forests

Neotropic

• Greater Antillean moist forests
• Talamancan-Isthmian Pacific forests
• Choco-Darien moist forests
• Northern Andean montane forests
• Coastal Venezuela montane forests
• Guianan moist forests
• Napo moist forests
• Rio Negro-Jurua moist forests
• Guayana Highlands moist forests
• Central Andean yungas
• Southwestern Amazonian moist forests
• Atlantic forests

Oceania

• South Pacific Islands forests
• Hawaii moist forests

Afrotropic

• Cameroon crater lakes (Cameroon)

Australasia

• Central Australian freshwater (Australia)

Indomalaya

• Philippines freshwater (Philippines)
• Inle Lake (Myanmar)
• Yunnan lakes and streams (China)

Neotropic

• Mexican highland lakes (Mexico)

Oceania

• Hawaii dry forests

Nearctic

• Alaskan North Slope coastal tundra
• Canadian low arctic tundra

Nearctic

• Chihuahuan freshwater (Mexico, United States)

Palearctic

• Fenno-Scandia alpine tundra and taiga
• Taimyr and Russian coastal tundra
• Chukote coastal tundra

Palearctic

• Anatolian freshwater (Syria, Turkey)

Antarctic Ocean

• Antarctic Peninsula & Weddell Sea

Arctic Ocean

• Bering Sea (Canada, Russia, United States)
• Barents-Kara Sea (Norway, Russia)

Mediterranean

• Mediterranean Sea (Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Serbia & Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey)

North Temperate Atlantic

• Northeast Atlantic Shelf Marine (Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom)
• Grand Banks (Canada, St. Pierre and Miquelon (France), United States)
• Chesapeake Bay (United States)

North Temperate Indo-Pacific

• California Current (Canada, Mexico, United States)

Southern Ocean

• Patagonian Southwest Atlantic (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay)
• Southern Australian Marine (Australia)
• New Zealand Marine (New Zealand)

South Temperate Atlantic

• Benguela Current (Namibia, South Africa)

South Temperate Indo-Pacific

• Humboldt Current (Chile, Ecuador, Peru)
• Agulhas Current (Mozambique, South Africa)

Central Indo-Pacific

• Nansei Shoto (Japan)
• Sulu-Sulawesi Seas (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines)
• Bismarck-Solomon Seas (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands)
• Banda-Flores Sea (Indonesia)
• New Caledonia Barrier Reef (New Caledonia)
• Great Barrier Reef (Australia)
• Lord Howe-Norfolk Islands Marine (Australia)
• Palau Marine (Palau)
• Andaman Sea (Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India), Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand)

Eastern Indo-Pacific

• Tahitian Marine (Cook Islands, French Polynesia)
• Hawaiian Marine (Hawaii)
• Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
• Fiji Barrier Reef (Fiji)

Eastern Tropical Atlantic

• Canary Current (Canary Islands, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal, Western Sahara)

Western Indo-Pacific

• Maldives, Chagos, and Lakshadweep atolls (Chagos Archipelago (United Kingdom), India, Maldives, Sri Lanka)
• Red Sea (Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen)
• Arabian Sea (Djibouti, Iran, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen)
• East African Marine (Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania)
• West Madagascar Marine (Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte and Iles Glorieuses (France), Seychelles)

Western Tropical Atlantic

• Mesoamerican Reef (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico)
• Greater Antillean Marine (Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States)
• Southern Caribbean Sea (Aruba, Columbia, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela)
• Northeast Brazil Shelf Marine (Brazil)

Related pages

• Biodiversity

Other websites

• Map of the Global 200
• Conservation status map of the global 200
• List of the Global 200