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Home to more than half the world's people, who together speak more than 2,000 languages, the Asia-Pacific region also claims unique wildlife species found nowhere else on Earth. Giant pandas, tigers, Asian elephants, Javan rhinos, and orangutans all make their homes within the Asia-Pacific's diverse ecoregions — from the sweltering jungles of Vietnam to the frigid Himalayan Mountains at the ceiling of the world.
In the Amur-Heilong region, the Amur tiger is bouncing back from the brink of extinction, while fewer than 40 Amur leopards remain in the wild. In Borneo and Sumatra, precious rain forests are being preserved, along with the rare species they shelter. In the Coral Triangle, the Sulu and Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion, jointly managed by Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, is home to some of the richest but most threatened coral reefs in the world. In the Terai Arc of Nepal and India, rhinos, tigers and elephants share space with millions of people. The Annamite mountain range of Indochina has yielded three large mammal discoveries this century. And in the forests of New Guinea, WWF staff are hard at work helping local communities save birds of paradise and other rare species while ensuring that their home, the world's third largest rainforest, remains intact for future generations.
For more than 40 years, WWF has been working tirelessly to conserve the natural wealth found here in the Asia-Pacific, using innovative ecoregion conservation visions to help bring long-term and lasting benefits for the people, wildlife and habitats of this vast, magnificent region.
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