Table of Contents TLDR Tuvalu has no endemic plants — none that evolved there and exist nowhere else. Of the 362 vascular plant species ever recorded on the nine islands,…
A koala eats eucalyptus leaves — nothing else, almost all day, every day. An adult gets through 200 to 500 grams of leaf a day, chewed down to a paste…
Table of Contents The scale of it Portugal has roughly 670 non-native species established outside cultivation or captivity, and about 18% of the country’s flora is now something that didn’t…
Gabon is roughly 88% forest. Drive an hour out of Libreville in almost any direction and the road narrows into a green wall, layered canopy stacked on canopy, the kind…
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines packs an absurd amount of plant life into 32 islands and cays. You get cloud forest on the flanks of La Soufrière, dry scrub on…
Stand in an old-growth pine savanna in late spring and you can count more than 40 plant species in a single square meter of ground. That number isn’t a typo….
Kiribati doesn’t have the kind of lush, layered forest you’d expect on a wetter Pacific island. Most of its land is low-lying coral atolls with sandy soil, salt spray, fierce…