HotSpots: The Last Hope

The biologically diverse areas in New South Wales and southern Queensland in Australia are home to a variety of sub-tropical rainforests, woodlands and headlands as well as a wide variety of threatened, indigenous wildlife.

Costa Rica's biodiversity hotspot is home to the highest mountainous forests in Central America and the most extensive, protected cloud forests in the region and is a stopover for at least 225 species of migratory birds.

Borneo is one of the most important hotspots on the planet. It's biodiversity numbers are dizzying with about 222 mammal species, 100 types of amphibians and 400 types of fish with even more discovered every year.

While many ecosystems within the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot have reached a balance with human activity, keeping the delicate balance is a precarious process.

Madagascar is the fourth-largest island in the world and its hotspot is a living example of how an exquisitely unique set of species have evolved through millions of years of isolation from a main continent.