Environment

Among more than 10,000 species of plants found on the island, the vast majority of those are endemic to Madagascar.

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Clarke's weavers, Aberdare cisticolas, and Sharpe's longclaws are all endangered avian species endemic to Kenya.

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Yellow-Tailed Woolly Monkeys and several species of Peruvian rodents are critically endangered in the country.

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Papua New Guinea is home to more than 6 dozen species of known endemic birds, a few of which are detailed herein.

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From its peninsular mountains to its low lying islands and out to the coastlines, Malaysia is largely covered in forests and wetlands.

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The Vistula, Poland's longest river, flows 651 miles between the Silesian Beskid Mountains and Gdansk Bay along the Black Sea.

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Binga, Mozambique's highest point, is situated along the border with Zimbabwe and reaches 7,992 feet above sea level.

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Morne Trois Pitons is home to tropical rainforests, volcanoes, geothermal hot springs, and varied flora and fauna.

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Indonesia has set aside a total of 52 national parks since 1980, with its largest being Teluk Cenderawasih in West Papua.

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A large share of Kenya's reptiles are endemic to either Kenya alone or the somewhat broader region of East Africa.

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The Madagascan Fish Eagle and Madagascan Pochard are the island nation's two most threatened endemic bird species.

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Rising to an elevation of 6,634 feet in the Air Mountains, Idoukal-n-Taghès, or Bagzane, is Niger's tallest peak.

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These protected areas administered by the Tanzania National Parks Authority are some of the most well-known globally.

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Malaysian Borneo and Sulawesi are both particularly rich in their collections of unique and endemic species of flora.

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With more than 20,000 miles of marine coastlines and an abundance of freshwater resources, the Philippine archipelago houses many native fish species.

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Having gone regionally extinct in neighboring areas, small populations of South-Central Black Rhinoceroses have managed to hang on to dear life in South Africa.

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Uganda is one of 11 nations sharing the waters of the Nile, while the Katonga is the longest river wholly within the country.

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Paektu, a volcano along the border with China with great spiritual significance, is the highest point in the country.

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Many of Peru's native and endemic plants are exceedingly rare, and often threatened by human activity.

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One of the largest marine conservation areas on earth, PIPA houses hundreds of corals, fish, birds, and marine mammals.

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