An emergency action plan to protect the world's most biodiverse areas from imminent threats of degradation and extinction refers to
A) the vertebrate strategy.
B) biodiversity hotspots.
C) the Wilderness Act.
D) the Extinction Prevention Plan.
E) coastal areas and old-growth forests.

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Biodiversity hotspots are the areas with the highest concentration of species that are under threat from human activity. An emergency action plan to protect them is essential to prevent further degradation and extinction of species. The other answer choices are either unrelated or too specific to cover all the world's most biodiverse areas.

An Emergency Action Plan to Protect the World's Most Biodiverse