Fauna

There is general agreement that Brazil has to show the largest number of vertebrates living at country and invertebrate animals world-wide. The variety of the wildlife declares itself from Brazil's size and from the multiplicity of the different ecosystems. The numbers published over Brazil's wildlife can be different according to sources. The reason for it is in differences in the classification of types and different information stand - is discovered new types again and again it and others dies out unfortunately. Brazil lies at the top with the primates with 77 different types and with the fishes of fresh water over 3000 types world-wide as well. With the amphibians, it takes a second place, with the birds a third and with the reptiles a fifth place.

Flora

Brazil is a paradise for botanists and plant lovers. But his/its mighty trees, his/its splendid flowers and the multiplicity of his/its edible fruits and nuts can even people, who don't have any particular relationship to the nature, enchants. For all, the possibility to visit a botanical garden, that finding Curitiba, Brasilia, Manaus and Belém in many Brazilian cities like Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, is, offers the ones ones, that would like to like to know only little time more haben,aber about Brazil's plant world, to itself. There is still the possibility of the proximity of Rio de Janeiro beside it to the visit of private facilities like the Sitio Burle Marx or, for orchid lovers, that of Orquidário Kautsky in Domingo Martin (Espirito Santo), the Orquidário Aranda in the proximity of Petropolis (Rio de Janeiro) or the Sitio Bacchus close to nova Friburgo (Rio de Janeiro).