The Afrotropical (African) Ecozone Africa. Home to Bushbabies and Bushmen, River River Hogs and Red Rock Rabbits, and some truly nasty diseases The Afrotropical (African) Ecozone here covers Africa south of the Sahara, Madagascar and some small islands in the Indian Ocean, along with southern Saudi Arabia, Oman, the UAE and read more
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Australasian
The Australasian Ecozone Australasia. Home to Dunnarts and dunnies, flying doctors and flying foxes, and far more than its fair share of the world’s most venmous creatures. The Australasian Ecozone here covers Australia, New Zealand, New Zealand and islands in the South West Pacific. To make it simpler to use read more
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Nearctic
The Nearctic (North American) Ecozone The Nearctic. Home to Groundhogs, Ground Squirrels and ground beef. Where the scenery is larger than life and so are the meals. The Nearctic (North American) Ecozone covers all of Canada and the USA (I include southern Florida here though it technically belongs in the Neotropical Zone), the highlands read more
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Neotropical
The Neotropical (South American) Ecozone The Neotropics. Home to Woolly Opposums and Silky Anteaters, cold margeritas, hot chilli and hotter chicas. The Neoptrical (South American) Ecozone covers South and Central America, and the southern Mexican lowlands and the Caribbean. Information – sometimes detailed, sometimes less so – on mammal watching in many areas is included on read more
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Oriental
The Oriental (South East Asian) Ecozone The Orient. Home to Tigers and Tapirs, Gibbons and gastro. And where the driving, the menus and the massage parlours are full of surprises. The Oriental (Indo-Malayan or South East Asian) Ecozone here stretches from Afghanistan through the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and includes the Philippines and Indonesia as far east read more
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Palearctic
The Palearctic (Europe and northern Asia) Ecozone The Palearctic. Home to Hedgehogs and Hamsters, Ibexes and Ikea, good cheese, bad traffic, and crap weather. The Palearctic Ecozone covers a slab of land north of the Sahara and the Himalayas, stretching from the UK in the west through to Siberia and Japan in read more