Ural Mountains & West Eurasian Taiga Forests (PA8)

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Ural Mountains & West Eurasian Taiga Forests Bioregion

The bioregion’s land area is provided in units of 1,000 hectares. The conservation target is the combined Global Safety Net (GSN1) areas for the component ecoregions. The protection level indicates the percentage of the GSN goal that is currently protected on a scale of 0-10. N/A means data is not available at this time.

  • 233,697
    Total Land Area (1000 ha)
  • 2
    Number of Ecoregions
  • 52%
    Protection Target
  • 2
    Protection Level

The Ural Mountains & West Eurasian Taiga Forests Bioregion is part of the Scandinavia & West Boreal Forests subrealm located in the Subarctic Eurasia realm (northern Palearctic) and contains two ecoregions—Scandinavian and Russian Taiga (717), Urals Montane Forest and Taiga (719)—totaling more than 233 million hectares of land area. 

The Ural Mountains & West Eurasian Taiga Forests bioregion is part of the Scandinavia & West Boreal Forests subrealm and is made up of two ecoregions: (1) Scandinavian and Russian Taiga (2) Urals Montane Forest and Taiga. 

Learn more about each of the Ural Mountains & West Eurasian Taiga Forests ecoregions below.

Sable (Martes zibellina)

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Sable (Martes zibellina)
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