<P> Madagascar has lost 90% of its eastern rainforests . As of 2007, less than 50% of Haiti's forests remained . Mexico, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Laos, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, have lost large areas of their rainforest . Several countries, notably Brazil, have declared their deforestation a national emergency . The World Wildlife Fund's ecoregion project catalogues habitat types throughout the world, including habitat loss such as deforestation, showing for example that even in the rich forests of parts of Canada such as the Mid-Continental Canadian forests of the prairie provinces half of the forest cover has been lost or altered . </P> <P> Rates of deforestation vary around the world . </P> <P> In 2011 Conservation International listed the top 10 most endangered forests, characterized by having all lost 90% or more of their original habitat, and each harboring at least 1500 endemic plant species (species found nowhere else in the world). </P> <Dl> <Dd> <Table> Top 10 Most Endangered Forests 2011 <Tr> <Th> Endangered forest </Th> <Th> Region </Th> <Th> Remaining habitat </Th> <Th> Predominate vegetation type </Th> <Th> Notes </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Indo - Burma </Td> <Td> Asia - Pacific </Td> <Td> 5% </Td> <Td> Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests </Td> <Td> Rivers, floodplain wetlands, mangrove forests . Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, India . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> New Caledonia </Td> <Td> Asia - Pacific </Td> <Td> 5% </Td> <Td> Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests </Td> <Td> See note for region covered . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sundaland </Td> <Td> Asia - Pacific </Td> <Td> 7% </Td> <Td> Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests </Td> <Td> Western half of the Indo - Malayan archipelago including southern Borneo and Sumatra . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Philippines </Td> <Td> Asia - Pacific </Td> <Td> 7% </Td> <Td> Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests </Td> <Td> Forests over the entire country including 7,100 islands . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Atlantic Forest </Td> <Td> South America </Td> <Td> 8% </Td> <Td> Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests </Td> <Td> Forests along Brazil's Atlantic coast, extends to parts of Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Mountains of Southwest China </Td> <Td> Asia - Pacific </Td> <Td> 8% </Td> <Td> Temperate coniferous forest </Td> <Td> See note for region covered . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> California Floristic Province </Td> <Td> North America </Td> <Td> 10% </Td> <Td> Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests </Td> <Td> See note for region covered . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa </Td> <Td> Africa </Td> <Td> 10% </Td> <Td> Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests </Td> <Td> Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Madagascar & Indian Ocean Islands </Td> <Td> Africa </Td> <Td> 10% </Td> <Td> Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests </Td> <Td> Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles, Comoros . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Eastern Afromontane </Td> <Td> Africa </Td> <Td> 11% </Td> <Td> Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests Montane grasslands and shrublands </Td> <Td> Forests scattered along the eastern edge of Africa, from Saudi Arabia in the north to Zimbabwe in the south . </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Dd> </Dl>

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