Search for tropical land animals and you’ll get a wall of jaguars and sloths. That’s fair, but it’s half the story. The tropics also hold savannas, mangrove edges and dry…
Morocco has roughly 7,000 plant species, and more than 900 of them grow nowhere else on Earth. That’s a lot of botany for a country you can cross in a…
Indonesia has somewhere between 24,000 and 30,000 species of vascular plants, and roughly 3,800 of them are orchids. That’s more plant diversity packed into a chain of 17,000-odd islands than…
South Africa holds more than 22,000 indigenous plant species, roughly 10% of all the plants on Earth, on a patch of land under 1% of the planet’s surface. Most of…
Ghana’s rarest animals aren’t hiding in some remote corner of the map. Most live in a handful of forest reserves and one savanna park, and a few of them cling…
Table of contents The plants of the Netherlands are shaped by one fact: almost nothing here is far from water, and a large part of the country was water not…
Cyprus has roughly 1,650 native plant species and subspecies, and about 142 of them grow nowhere else on Earth. That’s a lot of endemism for an island of 9,251 square…
Table of Contents The Amazon holds roughly one in ten of all known species on Earth, and a surprising share of them fit in your hand. This list covers 12…
Contents Nearly a third of the plant species growing in Acadia aren’t from here. That is the headline fact about invasive species in Acadia National Park, and it surprises people…