Honduras

Honduras is a coastal country in Central America that borders the Caribbean Sea of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Fonseca in the Pacific Ocean. Terrain is mountainous, rising from coastal plains. Most of the country is used for human activities, in its majority by rainfed agriculture. Honduras has high biodiversity rarity of terrestrial land vertebrates at a global scale. When analysed as single taxons, the rarity of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles is also high. The rarity of marine fish and mammals is also high. Challenges to biodiversity include urban expansion; deforestation; soil erosion; mining pollution in rivers and Lago de Yojoa, the largest source of fresh water).