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Brazil is a country of enormous and astonishing biodiversity, its ecosystems containing more than 10% of the plant and animal species known to science. In Amaznia alone there are 55,000 species of plants, 516 different kinds of amphibians, 1,622 birds, 467 reptiles and 428 mammals. In a world ranking for biodiversity, Brazil would be in first place for amphibian species, third for birds, and fourth for both mammals and reptiles. Continue reading →