FAO Map Catalog. GeoNetwork opensource allows to easily share geographically referenced thematic information between different organizations. For more information please contact GeoNetwork's purpose is: To improve access to and integrated use of spatial data and information To support decision making To promote multidisciplinary approaches to ...

The Amazon rainforest, Amazon jungle or Amazonia is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), of which 5,500,000 km 2 (2,100,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest.This region includes territory belonging to nine nations and 3,344 …

Canada has 20 major ecosystems -- ecozones, comprising 15 terrestrial units and 5 marine units. These ecozones are further subdivided into 53 ecoprovinces, 194 ecoregions, and 1,027 ecodistricts. These form the country's ecological land classification within the Ecological Land Classification framework adopted in 2017. They represent areas of the earth's surface …

A map of Freshwater Ecoregions of the World, released in 2008, has 426 ecoregions covering virtually the entire non-marine surface of the earth. ... WWF WildFinder (interactive on-line map of ecoregions with additional information about animal species) WWF Map of the ecozones at the Wayback Machine (archived April 10, 2010), Original web page;

Ilocos Norte (Ilocano: Probinsia ti Ilocos Norte; Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Ilocos Norte), is a province of the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region.Its capital is Laoag City, located in the northwest corner of Luzon Island, bordering Cagayan and Apayao to the east, and Abra to the southeast, and Ilocos Sur to the southwest. Ilocos Norte faces the West Philippine Sea to the …

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The map of hotspots overlaps extraordinarily well with the map of the natural places that most benefit people. That’s because hotspots are among the richest and most important ecosystems in the world — and they are home to many vulnerable populations who are directly dependent on nature to survive. By one estimate, despite comprising 2.5% ...

New Mexico (Spanish: Nuevo México [ˈnweβo ˈmexiko] (); Navajo: Yootó Hahoodzo [jòːtʰó hɑ́hòːtsò]; Classical Nahuatl: Yancuic Mexico [jankʷik meːʃiʔko]) is a state in the Southwestern United States.It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region of the western U.S. with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona, and bordering Texas to …

Mar 04, 2017 · The map of Fig. 1.13 shows the areas of the nine countries that are part of river Rhine basin. In the Dutch area of the Rhine basin, water is partly routed northward through the IJssel and westward through the highly interconnected river systems of the Rhine, Meuse, and Waal. ... (shades of green) found in ecoregions differ widely (Winemiller ...

This data layer shows the geographic coverage of FORMA alerts, which largely corresponds to the extent of the humid tropical forest biome, as defined by Hansen et al. (2008), and based on WWF’s terrestrial ecoregions. The biome illustrated by this layer includes a number of smaller forest ecoregions, which span portions of 89 countries.