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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• South Pacific Islands forests
• Hawaii moist forests

• Madagascar dry deciduous forests

• Nusa Tenggara dry forests
• New Caledonia dry forests

• Indochina dry forests
• Chhota-Nagpur dry forests

• Mexican dry forests
• Tumbesian-Andean valleys dry forests
• Chiquitano dry forests
• Atlantic dry forests

• Hawaii dry forests

• Sierra Madre Oriental and Occidental pine-oak forests

• Greater Antillean pine forests
• Mesoamerican pine-oak forests

• Eastern Australia temperate forests
• Tasmanian temperate rain forests
• New Zealand temperate forests

• Eastern Himalayan broadleaf and conifer forests
• Western Himalayan temperate forests

• Appalachian and mixed mesophytic forests

• Southwest China temperate forests
• Russian Far East temperate forests

• Pacific temperate rain forests
• Klamath-Siskiyou forests
• Sierra Nevada forests
• Southeastern coniferous and broadleaf forests

• Valdivian temperate rain forests-Juan Fernandez Islands

• European-Mediterranean montane mixed forests
• Caucasus-Anatolian-Hycanian temperate forests
• Altai-Sayan montane forests
• Hengduan Shan coniferous forests

• Muskwa-Slave Lake boreal forests
• Canadian taiga

• Ural Mountains taiga
• East Siberian taiga;
• Kamchatka taiga and grasslands

• Horn of Africa acacia savannas
• East African acacia savannas
• Central and Eastern miombo woodlands
• Sudanian savannas

• Northern Australia and Trans-Fly savannas

• Terai-Duar savannas and grasslands

• Llanos savannas
• Cerrado woodlands and savannas

• Northern prairie

• Patagonian steppe

• Daurian steppe

• Sudd-Sahelian flooded grasslands and savannas
• Zambezian flooded savannas

• Rann of Kutch flooded grasslands

• Everglades flooded grasslands
• Pantanal flooded savannas

• Ethiopian Highlands
• Southern Rift montane woodlands
• East African moorlands
• Drakenberg montane shrublands and woodlands

• Central Range subalpine grasslands

• Kinabalu montane shrublands

• Northern Andean paramo
• Central Andean dry puna

• Tibetan Plateau steppe
• Middle Asian montane steppe and woodlands
• Eastern Himalayan alpine meadows

• Alaskan North Slope coastal tundra
• Canadian low arctic tundra

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

• Fynbos

• Southwestern Australia forests and scrub
• Southern Australia mallee and woodlands

• California chaparral and woodlands

• Chilean Matorral

• Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and shrub

• Namib-Karoo-kaokoveld deserts
• Madagascar spiny thicket
• Socotra Island desert
• Arabian Highland woodlands and shrublands

• Carnavon xeric scrub
• Great Sandy-Tanami deserts

• Sonoran-Baja deserts
• Chihuahuan-Tehuacan deserts

• Galapagos Islands scrub
• Atacama-Sechura deserts

• Central Asian deserts

• Gulf of Guinea mangroves
• East African mangroves
• Madagascar mangroves

• New Guinea mangroves

• Sundarbans mangroves
• Greater Sundas mangroves

• Guianan-Amazon mangroves
• Panama Bight mangroves

• Congo River and flooded forests (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo)

• Mekong River (Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam)

• Colorado River (Mexico, United States)
• Lower Mississippi River (United States)

• Amazon River and flooded forests (Brazil, Colombia, Peru)
• Orinoco River and flooded forests (Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela)

• Yangtze River and lakes (China)

• Congo basin piedmont rivers and streams (Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Sudan)

• Mississippi piedmont rivers and streams (United States)

• Upper Amazon rivers and streams (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana (France), Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela)
• Upper Paraná rivers and streams (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay)
• Brazilian Shield Amazonian rivers and streams (Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay)

• Niger River delta (Nigeria)

• Indus River Delta (India, Pakistan)

• Volga River Delta (Kazakhstan, Russia)
• Mesopotamian delta and marshes (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait)
• Danube River delta (Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Yugoslavia)
• Lena River delta (Russia)

• Upper Guinea rivers and streams (Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone)
• Madagascar freshwater (Madagascar)
• Gulf of Guinea rivers and streams (Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, Republic of Congo)
• Cape rivers and streams (South Africa)

• New Guinea rivers and streams (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea)
• New Caledonia rivers and streams (New Caledonia)
• Kimberley rivers and streams (Australia)
• Southwest Australia rivers and streams (Australia)
• Eastern Australia rivers and streams (Australia)

• Xi Jiang rivers and streams (China, Vietnam)
• Western Ghats Rivers and Streams (India)
• Southwestern Sri Lanka rivers and streams (Sri Lanka)
• Salween River (China, Myanmar, Thailand)
• Sundaland rivers and swamps (Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore)

• Southeastern rivers and streams (United States)
• Pacific Northwest coastal rivers and streams (United States)
• Gulf of Alaska coastal rivers and streams (Canada, United States)

• Guianan freshwater (Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela)
• Greater Antillean freshwater (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico)

• Balkan rivers and streams (Albania, Bosnia and Herzogovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, Yugoslavia)
• Russian Far East rivers and wetlands (China, Mongolia, Russia)

• Rift Valley lakes (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia)

• High Andean lakes (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru)

• Lake Baikal (Russia)
• Lake Biwa (Japan)

• Cameroon crater lakes (Cameroon)

• Lakes Kutubu and Sentani (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea)
• Central Sulawesi lakes (Indonesia)

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

• Mexican highland lakes (Mexico)

• Central Australian freshwater (Australia)

• Chihuahuan freshwater (Mexico, United States)

• Anatolian freshwater (Syria, Turkey)

• Antarctic Peninsula & Weddell Sea

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

• 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)

• 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)

• Yellow Sea (China, North Korea, South Korea)
• Sea of Okhotsk (Japan, Russia)

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

• California Current (Canada, Mexico, United States)

• Benguela Current (Namibia, South Africa)

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

• Western Australian Marine (Australia)

• Panama Bight (Colombia, Ecuador, Panama)
• Gulf of California (Mexico)
• Galápagos Marine (Ecuador)

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

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• Biodiversity

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