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Peru is a country of diversed grounds and abundant natural resources. The variety of climates has contributed to the development of singular ecosystems where thousand of diversed species, some of them unique in the world, coexist.
Peru features a total of 60 protected natural areas, important for the conservation of the biological diversity and the sustainable development of the country.
Peru is part of the select group of eight "megadiverse" countries because it owns:
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84 out of 104 life zones existing on Earth |
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close to 20% or 1,700 especies of birds worldwide |
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10% total or 400 especies of mammals and 300 especies of reptiles of the planet |
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between 40.000 and 50.000 species of vascular plants (the most developed) |
source: World Resources Institute |
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