What is the Global 200?
Q: What is the Global 200?
A: The Global 200 is a list of ecoregions identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) as priorities for conservation.
Q: How does the WWF define an ecoregion?
A: 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."
Q: How does the WWF assign a conservation status to each ecoregion in the Global 200?
A: The WWF assigns a conservation status to each ecoregion in the Global 200: critical or endangered; vulnerable; and relatively stable or intact.
Q: What percentage of the ecoregions in the Global 200 are rated endangered?
A: Over half of the ecoregions in the Global 200 are rated endangered.
Q: Why is the Global 200 important?
A: The Global 200 is important because it identifies ecoregions that are priorities for conservation and helps direct conservation efforts to the most threatened and biologically diverse regions of the world.
Q: Who was involved in identifying the Global 200?
A: The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) was involved in identifying the Global 200.
Q: When was the importance of ecoregions first recognized?
A: The importance of ecoregions was first recognized in 1995 by Dinerstein et al. and in 1997 by TNC.
