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~ Consider This~
• A single pond in Brazil can sustain a greater variety
of fish than is found in all of Europe's rivers.
• A 25-acre plot of rainforest in Borneo may contain
more than 700 species of trees - a number equal to the
total tree diversity of North America.
• A single rainforest reserve in Peru is home to more
species of birds than are found in the entire United
States.
• One single tree in Peru was found to harbor forty-three
different species of ants - a total that approximates the
entire number of ant species in the British Isles.
• The number of species of fish in the Amazon exceeds the
number found in the entire Atlantic Ocean.