The Mediterranean has been identified by WWF as one of the most important regions in the world for its outstanding biodiversity features. Mediterranean forests, situated in a transitional zone between the European, African and Asian continents, are one of the planet’s centres of plant diversity, with 25,000 floral species representing 10% of the world’s flowering plants on just over 1.6% of the Earth’s surface. They also play host to an amazing faunal diversity.