Ecoregions

The objective of an ecoregional biodiversity vision is to identify and map the configuration of sites and priority areas critical to maintaining the biodiversity of the entire ecoregion. The vision should fulfill these basic tenets of conservation biology:

• Representation of all distinct natural communities within conservation landscapes and protected areas networks
• Maintenance of ecological and evolutionary processes that create and sustain biodiversity;
• Maintenance of viable populations of all native species; and
• Conservation of blocks of natural habitat large enough to be resilient to large-scale stochastic and deterministic disturbances and long-term changes.

The biodiversity vision serves as a reference point to ensure that the ecologically important features remain the core conservation targets throughout the Ecoregion Conservation (ERC) process.

Ecoregion conservation is currently well underway in many of WWF's Global 200 ecoregions. Read documents and reports from priority ecoregions