Editing Niue (section)

===Flora and fauna===
[[File:Pandanus tectorius (5187733419) (2).jpg|thumb|Pandanus]]
{{See also|Niue Nukutuluea}}
Niue is part of the [[Tongan tropical moist forests]] terrestrial ecoregion.<ref name="DinersteinOlson2017">{{cite journal|last1=Dinerstein|first1=Eric|last2=Olson|first2=David|last3=Joshi|first3=Anup|last4=Vynne|first4=Carly|last5=Burgess|first5=Neil D.|last6=Wikramanayake|first6=Eric|last7=Hahn|first7=Nathan|last8=Palminteri|first8=Suzanne|last9=Hedao|first9=Prashant|last10=Noss|first10=Reed|last11=Hansen|first11=Matt|last12=Locke|first12=Harvey|last13=Ellis|first13=Erle C|last14=Jones|first14=Benjamin|last15=Barber|first15=Charles Victor|last16=Hayes|first16=Randy|last17=Kormos|first17=Cyril|last18=Martin|first18=Vance|last19=Crist|first19=Eileen|last20=Sechrest|first20=Wes|last21=Price|first21=Lori|last22=Baillie|first22=Jonathan E. M.|last23=Weeden|first23=Don|last24=Suckling|first24=Kierán|last25=Davis|first25=Crystal|last26=Sizer|first26=Nigel|last27=Moore|first27=Rebecca|last28=Thau|first28=David|last29=Birch|first29=Tanya|last30=Potapov|first30=Peter|last31=Turubanova|first31=Svetlana|last32=Tyukavina|first32=Alexandra|last33=de Souza|first33=Nadia|last34=Pintea|first34=Lilian|last35=Brito|first35=José C.|last36=Llewellyn|first36=Othman A.|last37=Miller|first37=Anthony G.|last38=Patzelt|first38=Annette|last39=Ghazanfar|first39=Shahina A.|last40=Timberlake|first40=Jonathan|last41=Klöser|first41=Heinz|last42=Shennan-Farpón|first42=Yara|last43=Kindt|first43=Roeland|last44=Lillesø|first44=Jens-Peter Barnekow|last45=van Breugel|first45=Paulo|last46=Graudal|first46=Lars|last47=Voge|first47=Maianna|last48=Al-Shammari|first48=Khalaf F.|last49=Saleem|first49=Muhammad|display-authors=1|title=An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm|journal=BioScience|volume=67|issue=6|year=2017|pages=534–545|issn=0006-3568|doi=10.1093/biosci/bix014|pmid=28608869|pmc=5451287|doi-access=free}}</ref> The island is home to approximately 60 native or pre-European plants, and approximately 160 naturalised flowering plant species.<ref name="Gardner">{{Cite Q|Q106828180}}</ref> Compared to other Polynesian islands, Niue has sparse documentation for what plants were traditionally found on the island (almost no records are found between the documentation by James Cook's crew in 1774, and [[Truman G. Yuncker]]'s botanical survey of the island in 1940).<ref name="Gardner"/>

The '''Huvalu Forest Conservation Area''' is a 5,400&nbsp;hectare (20 sq. mi.) site on the eastern side of the island. It was established in 1992 and protects the largest area of [[primary forest]] in Niue.<ref name=sprep>{{cite web|url= https://pipap.sprep.org/content/huvalu-forest-conservation-area-niue|title= Huvalu Forest Conservation Area (Niue)|author= <!--Not stated-->|date= 2021|website= Pacific Islands Protected Area Portal|publisher= Pacific Regional Environment Programme|access-date= 6 March 2021|archive-date= 1 January 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220101070738/https://pipap.sprep.org/content/huvalu-forest-conservation-area-niue|url-status= dead}}</ref> It has been designated an [[Important Bird Area]] (IBA) by [[BirdLife International]] because it supports populations of [[crimson-crowned fruit dove]]s, [[blue-crowned lorikeet]]s, [[Polynesian triller]]s and [[Polynesian starling]]s.<ref name=bli>{{cite web |url=http://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/huvalu-and-environs-iba-niue-(to-new-zealand)|title= Huvalu and environs|author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2021|website= BirdLife Data Zone|publisher= BirdLife International|access-date= 6 March 2021}}</ref>