OO Ecuador Begins Pumping Oil From Famed Biodiversity Hotspot in Yasuní National Park, believed to be one, if not the most, biodiverse places on the planet.
Vietnam is often cited as a biodiversity hotspot, but little survives in these areas.
It is also a global biodiversity hotspot, with up to 30% of species endemic.
"It comes from an internationally recognised biodiversity hotspot and areas where there is not a lot of other economic activity.
"[It] falls within the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot and harbours many globally threatened species, including more cat species than anywhere else in the world," said Rahman.
Yasuni national park in the north-east of the country, bordering Peru, is a biodiversity hotspot that sits on an estimated one billion barrels of oil.
I really could not see, however, how this place was going to be what had been promised: a world biodiversity hotspot.
Not only will a biodiversity hotspot be damaged, so too will be the sacred "bridge", known to Hindus as "Ram Sethu" and to Muslims as "Adam's Bridge".
[15] Papua New Guinea is a biodiversity hotspot, with an estimated 5 percent of the world's species (on just 1 percent of the world's land surface).
But fast economic growth often comes with environmental hazards, especially in a state that is part of the Himalayan biodiversity hotspot.
Brazilian Atlantic forest ecosystem is a global biodiversity hotspot.
