The site also has an exceptionally high level of biological diversity and endemism.

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The islands, lying between the Antarctic and Subtropical Convergences and the seas, have a high level of productivity, biodiversity, wildlife population densities and endemism among birds, plants and invertebrates.

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The High Biodiversity Wilderness Areas (Amazonia, the Congo forests of Central Africa, the Miombo-Mopane Woodlands of Southern Africa, the island of New Guinea, and the North American Deserts) are similar to the Hotspots in that they have very high levels of diversity and endemism, but unlike the Hotspots they are still largely intact.

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