A High-Biodiversity Wilderness Area (HBWA) is an elaboration on the IUCN Protected Area classification of a Wilderness Area (Category Ib), which outlines five vast wilderness areas of particularly dense and important levels of biodiversity. The sub-classification was the initiative of Conservation International (CI) in 2003 to identify regions in which at least 70 percent of their original vegetation has remained intact in order to ensure that this is safeguarded and these regions do not become biodiversity hotspots. Currently the areas listed as HBWAs are[1]
^Conservation International: High-Biodiversity Wilderness Areas
External linksedit
A-Z of Areas of Biodiversity Importance: High-Diversity Wilderness Areas Conservation International Official Site
PNAS: Wilderness Biodiversity and Conservation
January 01, 1970
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