Cook Islands tropical moist forests

Cook Islands tropical moist forests
makatea (coralline limestone) forest on Atiu
Map of the Cook Islands. The Cook Islands tropical moist forests occupy the Southern Cook Islands. The Northern Cook Islands are part of the Central Polynesian tropical moist forests ecoregion.
Ecology
RealmOceanian
Biometropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Geography
Area127 km2 (49 sq mi)
CountryCook Islands
Conservation
Conservation statusCritical/endangered[1]
Global 200South Pacific Islands forests
Protected4 km2 (3%)[2]

The Cook Islands tropical moist forests is a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ecoregion that covers the Southern Cook Islands in the Cook Islands.

  1. ^ "Cook Islands tropical moist forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
  2. ^ Dinerstein, Eric; Olson, David; et al. (June 2017). "An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm". BioScience. 67 (6): 534–545. doi:10.1093/biosci/bix014. PMC 5451287. PMID 28608869.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) Supplemental material 2 table S1b.