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…
Table of Contents The Short, Honest Answer If you want the species that are genuinely endemic to Norwegian territory and nowhere else on Earth, the list is short: the Svalbard…
Table of Contents Vanuatu’s Forest Zones Vanuatu compresses a remarkable range of forest types into a Y-shaped chain of eighty-plus islands. A single large island — Santo, Malekula, or Tanna…
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…
Walk into a temperate forest in April and again in August and you’d swear you visited two different places. The April version is open and bright, the floor carpeted in…
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…
Sri Lanka packs more plant diversity per square kilometer than almost anywhere else in Asia. About a quarter of its flowering plants grow nowhere else on Earth — and the…
Burundi is one of Africa’s smallest countries, and most of it stopped being forest a long time ago. What’s left isn’t a single jungle but a patchwork: dry savanna woodland…
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….