What makes an area a biodiversity hot spot?

A. high diversity and medicine

B. high diversity and food

C. many endemic species and medicine

D. many endemic species and high diversity

A biodiversity hotspot needs to be threatened, so specifically it needs to have already lost a significant part of its vegetation.

It also needs to have a high diversity of species.

Further, it needs to have many endemic species, that is species specific to only this region.

The correct answer is D. many endemic species and high diversity