The Mediterranean region is regarded as one of planet Earth's 25 "hotspots", embracing some of the world's most unique bio-geographical areas and harbouring outstanding biological diversity.
Hotspots are characterised both by exceptional levels of plant endemism and by serious levels of habitat loss (at least 70 percent) and, therefore, are the focus of conservation efforts.
The Mediterranean basin is the largest of the world's five Mediterranean-climate regions. It stretches west to east from Portugal to Israel and north to south from Italy to Morocco and includes around five thousand islands.
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