England has roughly 1,400 native flowering plants and ferns, and well over a thousand more that have settled in from elsewhere. Nobody needs to memorise that list. What you need…
The birds of Trinidad and Tobago number around 489 species on the national checklist, packed into two islands that together are smaller than Delaware. Only two of those species are…
Burundi is one of the smallest countries in Africa, and its plant list is still being written. Meso’s national checklist counts about 1,600 plants, a single savanna reserve (Ruvubu National…
TLDR Contents Why every list gives a different number Search for Everglades fish species and you’ll see “about 50,” “close to 100,” and “more than 300,” sometimes on the same…
Search for Wales’ native animals and you’ll get lists that include feral goats, fallow deer and grey squirrels. None of those belong here. This list is stricter: 20 species that…
Mangroves and swamp trees aren’t two competing categories. “Mangrove” is a group of salt-tolerant tree species. “Swamp” is a type of wetland dominated by woody plants. A mangrove forest is…
Walk into any Florida swamp and the first tree you notice is almost always a cypress. It’s also the one most visitors assume is the only tree there. It isn’t….
Ukraine’s native animals don’t live in one place. They sort themselves into five distinct habitats: mountains, forested wetlands, grassland, coast and delta, and the Crimean uplands. Learn the zones and…
Scotland has roughly 1,600 vascular plants, around 1,000 bryophytes (mosses and liverworts) and about 1,500 lichens. That’s a lot of plant life for a country of cold winters and thin…