ANNEX 4: WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE’S GLOBAL 200

According to World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), “the Global 200 is a representation of some of the world’s most outstanding and distinctive ecoregions. They have been identified through a comprehensive assessment of the world’s biodiversity. A vast majority of all threatened animal and plant varieties depend on the Global 200 ecoregions for their very existence. Together these ecoregions form the ‘Web of Life’“.

Tropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Indo-Malayan

Annamite Range Moist Forests (Laos, Vietnam, Thailand), Western Ghats Moist Forests (India), Sri Lankan Moist Forests (Sri Lanka), Kayah-Karen/Tenasserim Moist Forests (Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia), Peninsular Malaysian Lowland & Montane Forests (Malaysia, Thailand), Sumatran-Nicobar Islands Lowland Forests (Indonesia, India), Sumatran Montane Forests (Indonesia), Central Borneo Montane Forests (Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei), Northern Borneo-Palawan Moist Forests (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei), Philippines Moist Forests (Philippines), Sulawesi Moist Forests (Indonesia), Moluccas Moist Forests (Indonesia), Northern Indochina Subtropical Moist Forests (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China), Southeast China Subtropical Forests (China), Northeastern India & Myanmar Hill Forests (India, Myanmar), Andaman Islands Forests (India), Taiwan Montane Forests (Taiwan), Hainan Island Forests (China), Nansei Shoto Archipelago Forests (Japan)

Australasia

New Caledonia Moist Forests (New Caledonia), New Zealand Tropical Forests (New Zealand), Queensland Tropical Forests (Australia), New Guinea Montane Forests (Papua New Guinea, Indonesia), New Guinea Lowland Forests (Papua New Guinea, Indonesia), New Guinea Outer Islands/Solomons Moist Forests (Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands), Lord Howe & Norfolk Island Forests (Australia),

Oceania

South Pacific Islands Forests (Fiji, Western Samoa)

Monsoon and Tropical Dry Broadleaf Forests

Indo-Malayan

Eastern Indochina Dry & Monsoon Forests (Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia), Lesser Sundas Dry & Monsoon Forests (Indonesia), Eastern Indian Monsoon Forests (India)

Australasia

New Caledonia Dry Forests (New Caledonia, France Oceania)

Temperate Conifer and Broadleaf Forests

Palearctic

Russian Far East Temperate Forests (Russia, China), Altai-Sayan Montane Forests (Russia, Kazakstan, Mongolia, China), Middle Asian Mountains Temperate Forests & Steppe (Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, India, Mongolia, China, Iran), Western Himalayan Temperate Forests (Pakistan, India, Nepal), Sichuan/Yunnan Temperate Forests (China), Eastern Himalayan Temperate Forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal, Myanmar, China)

Australasia

Eastern Australia Temperate Forests (Australia), Tasmanian Temperate Rainforests (Australia), South Island Temperate Rainforests & Banks Peninsula (New Zealand)