About one third of the 2700 species of Bromeliads
Amazon are endangered.
a large, up to 150 feet high tropical tree, is endangered.
are often endanegered in many parts of the world because it's tempting
to replace the muddy and smelly mangrove beaches with attractive sandy
beaches. But mangroves play a vital role in the ecosystem, being a
buffer zone between the ocean and the terrestrial plants and animals;
providing protection from hurricanes, filtering out debris to reach the
ocean, preventing coastal erosion and being used as nurseries by many
Flower, found in Amazon rainforests in Ecuador, is
- the largest flower in the world, is also one of the most endangered
plants in the world.
probably the most threatened of Amazon
There are 25,000 species of them and all are threatened or
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