Less than 10% of the world’s forests are protected
Unit 3: Biodiversity Tagged biodiversity, forest, map May 24th, 2009
The Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed to by 191 countries in 2004, stated that at least 10% of the world’s forests should be protected to allow sufficient protection of biological diversity. Currently, only 7.7% globally is protected, although regions of the Amazon, south-east Asia and Alaska have over 50% of their forests preserved. Read more here.
Your task is to create a virtual tour using Mapwing of the world’s Biodiversity Hot spots, using the map we have in class. You can do a virtual tour of the world’s Coral Reefs at Mapwing.
