Camera Trap

View images of species in the wild

The Wild Things

The Wild Things

Award-winning journalist John Nielsen tells the stories of WWF field teams through this new biweekly podcast series. Listen.

Travel

Travel

Travel With WWF

Visit our travel section and choose from many amazing trips! Learn more

Adopt a Polar Bear

Adopt Polar Bear

Make a symbolic Polar Bear adoption to help save some of the world's most endangered animals from extinction and support WWF's conservation efforts.
Adopt Now!

Support WWF

Show your love of the tiger with the WWF Visa Signature® credit card from Bank of America. Bank of America will contribute $100 to WWF for each new qualifying account.*

* See application for details.

Marine Ecoregions of the World

Definitions

Realms capture the highest levels of biological diversity - wide tracts of coasts and shelves with broad similarities reflecting influences of temperature and of evolutionary history.

Provinces are distinctive sub-units of realms often centered on seas or semi-enclosed basins, sometimes with highly distinctive biotas and endemic species.

Ecoregions, or ecological regions, capture areas of relatively homogenous species composition. These are the finest scale units within the MEOW and represent a realistic "jumping-off point" for practical on-the-ground conservation.

More complete definitions are provided in the CBD report.


© WWF

 


© WWF