Great Britain, Ireland & Faroe Islands (PA9) Great Britain, Ireland & Faroe Islands (PA9) Great Britain, Ireland & Faroe Islands (PA9) Great Britain, Ireland & Faroe Islands (PA9)

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Great Britain, Ireland & Faroe Islands bioregion

The bioregion’s land area is provided in units of 1,000 hectares. The conservation target 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.

  • 31,742
    Total Land Area (1000 ha)
  • 5
    Number of Ecoregions
  • 29%
    Protection Target
  • 9
    Protection Level

The Great Britain, Ireland & Faroe Islands bioregion is part of the Anglo-Celtic Isles subrealm located in the Western Eurasia realm (western Palearctic). It 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.

Learn more about each of the Great Britain, Ireland & Faroe Islands ecoregions below.

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