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Thanks, I'll take a look! Z3lvs (talk) 19:34, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

ecoregions

Be thoughtful in moving ecoregion articles from the WWF-defined ones to the One Earth ones. Some of them have the same boundaries, or are pretty close. Others have different boundaries.

For example, One Earth's Northern Mesoamerican Pacific Coast mangroves ecoregion includes the Northwest Mexican Coast mangroves, but also includes the Marismas Nacionales–San Blas mangroves and Mexican South Pacific Coast mangroves ecoregions. The Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands and Djibouti Xeric Shrublands ecoregions overlap but have considerable differences. If you just move the article and retitle it, the map, geography, area, description, etc. will be inaccurate. Also some entities, like DOPA, still use the WWF boundaries.

One Earth mostly uses the WWF boundaries, but the major areas of difference between the two systems are with mangrove ecoregions - One Earth ecoregions are much larger and encompass several of the smaller WWF ecoregions – and the desert and grassland ecoregions of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. For the time being I have started new ecoregion articles for the One Earth ecoregions where the boundaries between the WWF and One Earth systems differ a lot – South Arabian fog woodlands, shrublands, and dune, for example. In those articles I add a section explaining how the ecoregion's delination relates to and differs from the other system. That is what we have been doing for years for US ecoregions where the WWF and EPA ecoregions use markedly different boundaries. It seems like the best way to handle these differences between WWF and One Earth for now. Tom Radulovich (talk) 22:53, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I've noticed that a few boundaries have differences too. I was unsure about whether to create a potentially redundant new page on the same subject or to update the WWF page. I decided that at the time that it would be better to update the page so that the original contributions would be in the history. As for me, I would love to make some new maps for the One Earth boundaries, but I currently lack the knowledge of how to do so. I was planning on that type of update at a later stage, at least not until the framework of the categories was finished.

Moving forward, I am content to make new pages for the One Earth designations of ecoregions when they are significantly different from that of WWF. Thanks for the comment. Z3lvs (talk) 23:09, 8 January 2024 (UTC)