Environment

The Brown Spider Monkeys in the country's northwestern forests are critically endangered.

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Peru's rainforests are world famous for their populations of large, constricting, and/or venomous snakes.

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Each of the major Philippine islands house their own unique collections of avian fauna.

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Brazil's native flora species are used for food, medicine, fuel, construction materials, and decoration.

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From the Arctic to the Pacific to the Atlantic, and from the prairies to the mountains to the tundras within their shores, Canada's flora is far more than just maple trees.

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Habitat loss and reckless harvesting threaten many of the African nation's most unique plants.

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Bolivia, a land of many rivers and lakes, houses a wide variety of fish, including many catfish species.

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Brazil's primates are at especially great risk, as they continue to be killed, captured, and subjected to habitat losses.

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From the world's highest mountain to Tibetan lakes to the Shillin Stone Forest, these national parks hold some of China's greatest natural and cultural treasures.

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Taman Negara near Kuala Tembeling is home to one of the oldest broad-leaved forests on earth.

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Peru's rainforests and river banks provide ample environs for its many native, often endemic, species of amphibians to live in.

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The Philippine islands, sometimes with only a few miles separating them, see high levels of regionally distinct endemism among their respective reptiles.

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From Amazon River waters to the Atlantic Coast, these are some of Brazil's most notable fish species.

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Rajang River in Sarawak on the island of Borneo is Malaysia's longest at 350 miles.

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Namibia is a mostly arid nation, although wetter grasslands and savannas predominate in the northeast.

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Maromokotro on the northern end of the island is the country's tallest peak at an elevation of 9,436 feet above sea level.

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Mounts Iglit–Baco is the country's largest national park with an area of 291 square miles, while its oldest, Mount Arayat, was formed in 1933.

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Critically imperiled plants can be found throughout the Continental U.S, Hawaii, Alaska, & Puerto Rico.

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Mississippi Gopher Frogs are possibly the rarest extant species of amphibians known to be living in the U.S.A.

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Venezuela is an especially snake-rich country, and these snakes accompany many different turtles, lizards, and other reptiles also found there.

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