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Epic Ecosystems

Artists on Expedition resolves our current state of inaction by creating and distributing Impact Art from the planet’s most precious and imperiled ecosystems, or our Epic Ecosystems. To accomplish this, we choreograph, coordinate and lead “artists-on-expedition” programs across the globe within our defined Epic Ecosystems. The criteria used in defining Epic Ecosystems are biological significance, conservation investments, protection status, and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge.

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Artists on Expedition Top 20 Global Epic Ecoregions

In alphabetical order

 

  1. Amazon Basin 

  2. Antarctica

  3. Arctic

  4. Borneo

  5. Caribbean 

  6. Cerrado

  7. Coastal East Africa

  8. Congo Basin

  9. Coral Triangle

  10. Galápagos

  11. Hawaiian Islands

  12. Himalayas 

  13. Indo-Burma 

  14. Madagascar

  15. Mesoamerican Reefs

  16. Namibia 

  17. New Guinea  

  18. Pantanal

  19. South Africa Marine

  20. Taiga

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Artists on Expedition Top 10 North American Epic Ecosystems

In alphabetical order

 

  1. Arctic 

  2. Caribbean Islands  

  3. Cloud And Summit Forests - Central America

  4. Everglades - United States

  5. Great Plains - Canada, United States

  6. Gulf of California - Mexico

  7. Hawaiian Islands - United States

  8. Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands - Mexico

  9. Mesoamerican Reef - Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras

  10. Pacific Northwest Coast - Canada, United States

 

 

Artists on Expedition Global List of Epic Ecosystems

In alphabetical order

 

  • Aguajales - Peru

  • Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves - Niger

  • Alpine snow patch herb fields - Australia

  • Altai Mountains - Russia China Mongolia and Kazakhstan 

  • Amazon Basin (4x) - Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana (France), Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela

  • Amur-Heilong - China, Russia

  • Antarctica (3x) - Shallow Ocean, Southern Ocean, McMurdo Dry Valleys

  • Aral Sea - Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan

  • Arctic (3x)

  • Atewa Range - Ghana

  • Atlantic Forest - Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay

  • Atlantic Forests of South America - Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina

  • Bangweulu wetlands - Zambia

  • Bhutan - Bhutan

  • Białowieża Forest - Poland, Belarus

  • Borneo (3x) - Indonesia, Malaysian states of and Sarawak, the Indonesia province of Kalimantan, and the tiny nation of Brunei.

  • Cambodia’s marine environment - Cambodia

  • Cape flats sand fynbos - South Africa

  • Cape Floral Region - South Africa

  • Cape Verde Marine - Cape Verde

  • Caribbean coral reefs - Caribbean

  • Caribbean Islands (2x) - Grenada, Dominica, and Saint Lucia 

  • Central Deserts, The 'stony downs' - Australia

  • Cerrado (2x) - Brazil

  • Chihuahuan - Mexico, United States

  • Chile - Southern Chile, Argentina

  • China Marine Fisheries - China

  • Christian Orthodox Church forests - Ethiopia

  • Cloud And Summit Forests - Central America

  • Coastal East Africa (2x) - Kenya, Mozambique, and Tanzania

  • Coastal lowland rainforests of Queensland tropics - Australia

  • Coastal sandstone upland swamps - Australia

  • Congo Basin (4x) - Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.

  • Coolibah – Black Box woodlands - Australia

  • Coorong lagoons and Murray Mouth inverse estuary - Australia

  • Coral Triangle - Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste, and Solomon Islands.

  • Cuba and Hispaniola - Cuba, Haiti, DR

  • Cumberland plain woodland - Australia

  • East Rennell - Solomon Islands

  • Eastern Stirling Range - Australia

  • Eucalyptus Forest - Australia

  • European reedbeds - Europe

  • Everglades National Park - United States

  • Fiji Marine - Fiji

  • Galápagos (2x) - Ecuador

  • Garamba National Park - Congo

  • German tamarisk-pioneer vegetation - Germany

  • Giant kelp forests - United States

  • Gnarled mossy cloud forest - Australia

  • Gonakier forests of Senegal river floodplain - West Africa

  • Gorongosa National Park - Mozambique

  • Great Lakes alvar - United States, Canada

  • Guatemala’s Pacific Coast - Guatemala

  • Guiana Shield - Venezuela, Guyana 

  • Guianan Mangroves and Swamp Forests - Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana

  • Gulf of California - Mexico

  • Hawaii (2x) - United States

  • Himalayas (2x) - Nepal, Bhutan, northeast India, southeast Tibet, and northern Myanmar

  • Igapó Forests - Brazil

  • Indo-Burma (3x) - Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, China

  • Intertidal mudflats of the French Atlantic coast - France

  • Ironstone shrubland - Australia

  • Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California - Mexico

  • James Bay Marine - Canada

  • Kahuzi-Biega National Park - Congo

  • Karst rising-spring wetland community of Southeast Australia - Australia

  • Kimberley - Australia

  • Lake Baikal - Russia

  • Lake Burullus - Egypt

  • Lake Turkana National Parks - Kenya

  • Long Leaf Pine Savanna - United States

  • Madagascar (2x)

  • Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands (2x) Mexico

  • Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park - Central African Republic 

  • Manu Region Of Peru - Peru

  • Mekong - China, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

  • Mesoamerica - Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

  • Mesoamerican Reef (3x) - Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras

  • Micronesia Marine - Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas (CNMI), and the U.S. territory of Guam 

  • Mountain ash forest - Australia

  • Mountains of Central Asia - Russia

  • Mozambique and Tanzania marine and coastal habitats - Mozambique and Tanzania

  • Murray-Darling Basin - Australia

  • Myanmar 

  • Namibia (2x)

  • New Guinea (3x) 

  • Niger Delta Mangroves - Niger

  • Niokolo-Koba National Park - Senegal

  • Niue Marine - Niue 

  • Northern Great Plains - Canada, United States

  • Okapi Wildlife Reserve - Congo

  • Okavango Basin - Botswana

  • Pacific Northwest - United States, Canada

  • Pantanal (2x) - Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay

  • Pantanal - Brazil

  • Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands Marine - Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands

  • Paramos - Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia

  • Patagonian Sea - Chile, Argentina

  • Peatlands of Northern Scotland - Scotland

  • Peru Marine - Peru

  • Philippines

  • Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) - Republic of Kiribati

  • Polynesia

  • Rainforests of the Atsinanana - Madagascar

  • Raised bogs of Germany - Australia

  • Redwood Forests of California - United States

  • Republic of Comoros Marine - Republic of Comoros

  • Republic of Ireland Protected Areas - Ireland

  • Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve - Honduras

  • Selous Game Reserve - Tanzania

  • Serengeti - Tanzania

  • Seychelles Marine - Seychelles

  • Socotra Island - Yemen

  • South Africa Marine (3x)

  • South Australian Mediterranean Bioregion - Australia

  • South East Australia - Australia

  • Sri Lanka Marine - Sri Lanka

  • Sumatra, Indonesia

  • Sundarbans Mangroves - India, Bangladesh

  • Taiga (2x) Russia, Finland, Sweden, and Norway

  • Tapia forest - Madagascar

  • Tepui shrublands - Venezuela

  • Tidal flats of the Yellow Sea - China, North Korea, and South Korea

  • Tonga’s marine - Tonga

  • Tonle Sap Lake - Cambodia

  • Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra - Sumatra

  • Valdivian Forests - Chile

  • Vine thicket in Southeast Australia - Australia

  • Virunga National Park - Congo

  • Western Ghats - India

  • Yangtze - China

  • Zambezi Delta - Mozambique

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