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Posted: 17 Jun 2023

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Hot spots are habitats with many species found nowhere else and in greater danger of extinction from human activity. The 18 hot spots identified here are forests and Mediterranean scrubland well enough known to be included with certainty. But the map, based on preliminary study, is far from complete. Other forest types not shown are endangered, as well as a lare number of lakes, river systems, and coral reefs. The broader areas depicted, such as the costal forests ofBrazil and Philippines, actually consisted of many smaller hot spots scattered across local mountain ridges, valleys, and island.
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San Bruno Mountain, California : In the small refuge surrounded by the San Francisco metropolis live a number of federally protected vertebrates, plants, and insects. Some of the species are endemic of the San Francisco peninsula, including the san Bruno elfin butterfly and the San Francisco greater snake. The native fauna and flora are threatened by offroad vehicular traffic, expansion of quarry, and invasion by eucalyptus, gorse, and other alien plant species. ~ page 401

Atlantic coast of Brazil. A unique rain forest once reached from Recife southward through Rio de Janeiro to Florianopolis, of which the young Charles Darwin once wrote, “twiners entwining twiners – tresses like hair – beautiful lepidoptera – silence – hosanna – silence well exemplified – lofty tree. . . wonder, astonishment, and sublime devotion, fill and elevate the mind”. There was 1832 when, a naturalist on the Beagle, Darwin put ashore in South America jotted his impressions in a notebook. The Atlantic forests originally covered about a million square kilometers. Geographically isolated from Amazonian forests to the north and west, they contain one of the most diverse and distinctive biotas in the world. . . . . Page 406

Western Ghats of India. Along the seaward slopes of the Western Ghat mountains, extending the length of the peninsular India, is a zone of tropical forest covering about 17,000 square kilometers. It is home to 4,000 known plant species, of which 40 percent are endemic. The pressure from the expanding local populations is intense, and clearing for timber and agriculture has been rapid. About a third of the cover is gone already, and the remainder is disappearing at a rate of 2-3 percent a year. - page 410

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