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…
Most roundups of Malaysia’s native plants give you the same six photogenic species in a different order, then send you off with no idea whether you’re looking at something endemic…
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…