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vegetarian piranha

Passion flowers

titi Monkey

Golden Lion Tamarin Monkey Amazon Sloth

There are an estimated 5 to 10 million species on the planet, and humans so far have dis-
covered and documented only 1.3 million of them. That means it’s possible that 90% of life
on earth is unknown to us, and due to climate change and habitat destruction it is likely
that many species will go extinct before we ever find them.

The Amazon region is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. With much of it unexplored
by modern science, it is likely to be teeming with species never seen by the rest of the world.
In fact, between 2010-2014 over 400 new species were documented in the Amazon rain-