Biodiversity Hotspots

We will have access to computers tomorrow (Wednesday)to continue working on this project. Report to C103.

Biodiversity Hotspot Project

Select a Biodiversity Hotspot from the list below.
You will need the following information to present to the class using Photostory:

1. World map showing location of your hotspot
2. Representative species including common ones as well as endangered species. Be sure to include some facts about each of the endangered species and pick representative of different groups - plants, mammals, reptiles, amphibians,and invertebrates
3. Threats to the area
4. What is being done to protect the area

Your photostory should be 2-5 minutes long.
Save your photostory on a flashdrive OR you can upload this to youtube! Please try this out on a school computer to make sure that it works.

Project presentations will start on Tuesday.

List of Biological Hotspots

North and Central America
California Floristic Province
Caribbean Islands
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands
Mesoamerica

South America
Atlantic Forest
Cerrado
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian
Forests Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
Tropical Andes

Europe and Central Asia
Caucasus
Irano-Anatolian
Mediterranean Basin
Mountains of Central Asia

Africa
Cape Floristic Region
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa
Eastern Afromontane
Guinean Forests of West Africa
Horn of Africa
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
Succulent Karoo

Asia-Pacific
East Melanesian Islands
Himalaya
Indo-Burma
Japan
Mountains of Southwest China
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Philippines
Polynesia-Micronesia
Southwest Australia
Sundaland
Wallacea
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka