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  2. List of ecoregions in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of ecoregions in Brazil as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions. by major habitat type. ...

  3. Biomes in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The Brazilian marine biome is located on the "Marine Zone of Brazil", the continental shelf biotope, and presents several ecosystems. The Brazilian Coastal Zone has as distinctive aspects in its long extension through different biomes that arrive until the coast, the biome of the Amazônia, the biome of the Caatinga and bioma of the Atlantic ...

  4. Gomphothere - Wikipedia

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    "Gomphothere description including images". Sierra College. Archived from the original on 2019-07-27 "King Tusk" Gomphothere Excavation". Sierra College. Archived from the original on 2019-07-27 (photos from the excavation of a Gomphothere skeleton on the Sierra College website) "The Gomphotheriidae". University of California Museum of ...

  5. Poaching and Habitat Loss: The Dual Threats to Elephant ... - AOL

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    Elephants are one of the iconic animals that people travel thousands of miles to see. But have you ever wondered if elephants are endangered? Well, unfortunately, these huge animals — the ...

  6. Environment of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Extensive legal and Illegal logging destroys forests the size of a small country per year, and with it a diverse series of species through habitat destruction and habitat fragmentation. [1] In Brazil forest cover is around 59% of the total land area, equivalent to 496,619,600 hectares (ha) of forest in 2020, down from 588,898,000 hectares (ha ...

  7. Wildlife of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The wildlife of Brazil comprises all naturally occurring animals, plants, and fungi in the South American country. Home to 60% of the Amazon Rainforest , which accounts for approximately one-tenth of all species in the world, [ 1 ] Brazil is considered to have the greatest biodiversity of any country on the planet.

  8. South American tapir - Wikipedia

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    swimming, Cristalino River, Mato Grosso. The South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris), also commonly called the Brazilian tapir (from the Tupi tapi'ira [3]), the Amazonian tapir, the maned tapir, the lowland tapir, anta (Brazilian Portuguese), and la sachavaca (literally "bushcow", in mixed Quechua and Spanish), is one of the four recognized species in the tapir family (of the order ...

  9. Asian elephant in Argentina packs trunk for long trip to Brazil

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    Mara the elephant is packing for what may be the final trip of her 54-year life spent globe-trotting from India to Germany before joining circuses in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, Argentina, where ...