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A few figures on Peru's ecological wealth
- Peru embraces 84 out of the world's 105 types of biozone.
- In the Manu forest there are 300 species per hectare.
- Mishana is the second-most significant forest in the world in the diversity of its trees, having 289 species per hectare.
- Iquitos, in the Amazon jungle, has the most diverse reptile fauna in the world.
- Balta, south of Iquitos, records the greatest mammal inventory in the world.
- In just 4.5 sq.km. Tambopata has recorded the greatest world inventory: 545 birds, 1100 butterflies.
- Cochacashu has recorded 530 species in 4.5 sq.km.
- Peru has more than 1,700 species of bird. It is therefore the most prolifically-endowed country on Earth, featuring 19% of the total bird species in the world, in an area only 0.25% of the Earth's surface. Twenty-five new bird species have been discovered in Peru in the last 25 years.
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