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Biodiversity Of
Rainforests
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Over
50% of the Earth's species live in tropical forests.
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Tropical
forests contain 70% of the world's vascular plants, 30%
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of all bird species and 90% of all
invertebrates.
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90%
of all primates are found only in tropical forest regions of Latin America,
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Africa and
Asia.
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In
Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest, 70% of its plants and most of its 20 primate
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species are
endemic.
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780
tree species have been found in a 25 acre plot of Malaysian rainforest--
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more than the
total number of tree species native to the US and Canada.
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