Great Britain, Ireland & Faroe Islands bioregion
The bioregion’s land area is provided in units of 1,000 hectares. The protection goal is the combined Global Safety Net (GSN1) areas for the component ecoregions. The protection level indicates the percentage of the GSN goal that is currently protected on a scale of 0-10. N/A means data is not available at this time.
The Great Britain, Ireland & Faroe Islands bioregion is located in the Western Eurasia realm (western Palearctic) and contains five ecoregions – Celtic Broadleaf Forests (651), English Lowlands Beech Forests (663), North Atlantic Moist Mixed Forests (672), Caledon Conifer Forests (691), Faroe Islands Boreal Grasslands (729) – totaling nearly 32 million hectares of land area.
The Great Britain, Ireland & Faroe Islands bioregion is part of the Anglo-Celtic Isles subrealm and is made up of five ecoregions: (1) Faroe Islands Boreal Grasslands (2) North Atlantic Moist Mixed Forests (3) Caledon Conifer Forests (4) Celtic Broadleaf Forests (5) English Lowlands Beech Forests.
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