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Central American Dry Corridor
The Central American Dry Corridor, or Corredor Seco Centroamericano, is a tropical dry forest belt along the Pacific coast where recurrent droughts damage subsistence farming.
Eastern Coastal Australia
Eastern Coastal Australia (FEOW ecoregion 807) is a temperate coastal rivers ecoregion spanning Halifax Bay to Wilsons Promontory, 589,000 km2, home to the endemic Australian lungfish and non-parasitic lamprey Mordacia praecox.
Kluane
Kluane: region of southwest Yukon around Kluane National Park and Reserve and Kluane Lake (Lhù'ààn Mân, largest lake wholly in Yukon). Name from Tlingit 'whitefish country'; part of a UNESCO World Heritage site; 2016 glacier diversion cut the lake's main inflow.
Southwestern Australia
Southwestern Australia, the Southwest Australia Ecoregion or Floristic Region, is a Mediterranean-climate biodiversity hotspot in Western Australia with over 8,000 plant species, over 4,000 endemic, and highly endemic freshwater fish threatened by salinisation and declining rainfall.
Ucayali - Urubamba Piedmont
Ucayali-Urubamba Piedmont, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 317 in Peru, a 250-750 m Andes-Amazon transition of whitewater rivers; nearly 21 endemic fish species, threatened by dams and Camisea gas development.
Western Amazon Piedmont
Western Amazon Piedmont (FEOW ecoregion 313): freshwater ecoregion on the eastern Andean foothills across Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, from the Apaporis to the Marañón drainages, with over 100 endemic fish species and dourada catfish spawning migrations.