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Which of the following is/are biodiversity hotspot site(s)?

  1. Horn of Africa

  2. Northwest Australia

  3. Coastal regions of southwest China

  4. All of the above
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Explanation

Option '1' is correct. A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with a significant reservoir of biodiversity that is under threat from humans. There are 25 hotspots with nine other possible candidates. Horn of Africa is one such hotspot. Option '2' is wrong. Southwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot. Option '3' is wrong. Mountain of Southwest China is a hotspot. The list of these hotspots is North and Central America

  1. California Floristic Province
  2. Caribbean Islands
  3. Madrean pine-oak woodlands
  4. Mesoamerica South America
  5. Atlantic Forest
  6. Cerrado
  7. Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests
  8. Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena
  9. Tropical Andes Europe and Central Asia
  10. Caucasus
  11. Irano-Anatolian
  12. Mediterranean Basin
  13. Mountains of Central Asia Africa
  14. Cape Floristic Region
  15. Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa
  16. Eastern Afromontane
  17. Guinean Forests of West Africa
  18. Horn of Africa
  19. Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
  20. Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
  21. Succulent Karoo South Asia
  22. Eastern Himalaya, India
  23. Indo-Burma, India and Myanmar
  24. Western Ghats, India
  25. Sri Lanka East Asia and Asia-Pacific
  26. East Melanesian Islands
  27. Japan
  28. Mountains of Southwest China Polynesia-Micronesia
  29. New Caledonia
  30. New Zealand
  31. Philippines
  32. Southwest Australia
  33. Sundaland
  34. Wallacea

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