All 17 Megadiverse Countries

In terms of species count, an overwhelming majority of the world's flora and fauna is harboured by a relatively small number of countries. But it is not solely the number of species that qualifies a country as "mega" diverse. Endemism refers to the state of a species or other taxon being unique to a specific geographical region and was a heavily weighted factor when, in 1988, the world’s 17 megadiverse countries were first proposed. In this video, we explore each of these nations and the species found therein.
00:00 Megadiversity
00:45 Madagascar
01:48 South Africa
02:53 Democratic Republic of Congo
04:05 India
05:07 China
06:10 Philippines
07:16 Malaysia
08:23 Indonesia
09:29 Papua New Guinea
10:25 Australia
11:31 United States
12:43 Mexico
13:46 Venezuela
14:45 Colombia
15:38 Ecuador
16:40 Peru
17:51 Brazil
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Megadiverse countries
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Number of species found in each country
theswiftest.com/biodiversity-...
Number of endemic species found in each megadiverse country
web.archive.org/web/201412110...
Lists of endemic species in each country (both INCREDIBLE resources!)
lntreasures.com/index.html
www.inaturalist.org/
Madagascar
www.kew.org/read-and-watch/ma...
lemur.duke.edu/8-20-ll1/
www.worldwildlife.org/places/...
South Africa
wwf.panda.org/discover/knowle...
www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...
Democratic Republic of Congo
www.interfaithrainforest.org/...
www.worldwildlife.org/places/...
www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1059...
www.insectsuk.co.uk/insects/l...
India
byjusexamprep.com/upsc-exam/c...
China
www.cbd.int/countries/profile...
Philippines
www.worldwildlife.org/places/...
wwf.panda.org/discover/knowle...
www.philchm.ph/status-of-phili...
Malaysia
wwf.panda.org/discover/knowle...
Indonesia
www.britannica.com/science/Wa...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
wwf.panda.org/discover/knowle...
Papua New Guinea
www.cbd.int/countries/profile/
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
Australia
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/to...
www.nationalgeographic.org/ar...
whc.unesco.org/en/list/154/
Mexico
www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
Ecuador
www.galapagos.org/about_galap...
Peru
animals.sandiegozoo.org/anima...
Brazil
www.cbd.int/countries/profile...
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[@Textbooktravel]

Hi Everyone! Just a quick comment about the data used for the rankings in this video. All of the total species counts are referenced from a table on The Swiftest (link below). I had initially wanted to use the Mongabay Rainforest site (also below) as it seemed more authoritative but many of the cells in their tables for mammals, amphibians and vascular plant species were incomplete for some reason. However, both of these sites get their data from the same sources (AmphibiaWeb, FishBase, IUCN Red List, Reptile Database & Birdlife International) and after comparing what was available on both sites, they were very similar, with only a few differences. One final note, having reviewed the video, I noticed a mistake - South Africa’s highest ranking category is actually fish (14th) not reptiles (17th). ​​theswiftest.com/biodiversity-index/ rainforests.mongabay.com/03highest_biodiversity.htm

[@EuroWarsOrg]

Surely the more similar all the animals are, the more diverse? Are we not told as humans that to mix it all up and create a one world order, is diversity?

[@cringekiller348]

You got the map of India wrong. Stop the cap

[@EuroWarsOrg]

@@cringekiller348 Who cares, it will soon be part of the One World Order, or part of China's version of it

[@ochrechap]

Im dissapointed my country was hurt like that! Not MY SOUTH AFRICA! ANGRY am I!!

[@michellesheaff3779]

This was a wonderful way to discover megadiversity, very interesting and easy to follow, with the coherent continuous tour around the world expressed in maps, colourful videos of sample species, and statistics broken down into bite size morsels easy to swallow and absorb. Science communication at its best. I'm sad my country didn't make it into the Megadiversity Olympics, but Canada is just too far north. (Though that could change with the climate crisis...) I console myself with the gold medals in other areas: Canada is number one in wilderness area (#2 in number of trees: Russia is so much bigger than us, and a significant amount of our wilderness is taïga and tundra. We have the longest coastline in the world by far, 243,000km. Silver medal goes to Indonesia with 37,000km. (Curiously, Norway, Sweden and Finland take all the medals for most islands right before Canada and Indonesia. They must be counting every skerry and seastack? I looked at a world map and could not see more islands than Canada and Indonesia. They must be small...) Not only do we have the most lakes, we have more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Literally: we have 60% of the world's lakes. (In case anyone is wondering why: it's a combination of The Canadian Shield, solid watertight bedrock covering central-eastern Canada plus melting glaciers after the last ice age. But there are a lot of lakes everywhere in Canada, though not as much as on the Canadian Shield.) Funny anecdote: a friend from Saskatchewan, a prairie province outside the Shield, went to college with a Korean student who kept hearing "We're going to the lake this weekend", "Do you want to come visit us at the lake this summer?" Or "The fish are really biting at the lake right now!" Finally, he mustered up the courage to ask: "Where is this lake everyone keeps talking about? What's it called?" And then they had to explain to him, there isn't one lake everyone goes to. There are many many lakes. And people don't name them because everyone knows which lake is yours, where your family has a cottage, or where you rent a fishing cabin every season, or where you go camping with friends every summer, etc. The Korean in turn explained how there are very few lakes in South Korea. It's funny how geography influences people's perception of things. It made us realise we take all our lakes for granted; so many nations and regions are struggling with the lack of freshwater. Even more so with the climate crisis making droughts worse: wildlife has been dying in droves in Kenya and the horn of Africa in recent years. Especially elephants. On that note, we really need to protect all the surviving habitats and plant trees to re-wild all the places we've stripped bare, like Scotland, Cape Verde Islands, etc. And we need to help wildlife however we can, like providing water troughs in Eastern African wildlife parks and reserves. They don't deserve to suffer and die because we pumped the atmosphere--their atmosphere too--full of co2. And we're already losing so many species scientists are calling this the Sixth Extinction. Megadiversity and extinction do not mix.

[@c.i.demann3069]

I can't believe Vatican City didn't make the list.

[@jayasuriyas2604]

What

[@faridfarhan6553]

You believe to nothing 😶

[@swausgebouwen143]

​@@jayasuriyas2604 it has only humans and pigeons and maybe a couple of insects, because it's all urban area within Rome

[@SandeepSingh-or7jr]

Ya Noah arc alone have all species couple , equal to all earth

[@gautamv952]

@@willwake510 😂🤣

[@pedrowakisaka2098]

As a Brazilian, I feel like I must stress the sheer diversity of biomes in Brazil. Yes, the Amazon is outstandingly diverse, but diversity also shines in the Cerrado dry savanna and the Pantanal flooded savanna of Central-Western Brazil, in the semiarid Caatinga and the broadleaf Babaçu Forest of the Northeastern region, the Atlantic Forest that stretches throughout the coastline, the southern Pampas prairies, as well as the coral reefs, whale and turtle sanctuaries and the brackish waters of coastal mangroves. Thanks for the video!

[@leonardodasilveiradesouza7757]

perfeito! sem falar nos campos rupestres ao longo da serra do espinhaço que possuem uma taxa de endemismo absurda

[@ioium299]

What about the Maranhão dunes?

[@virendradeshmukh2935]

"Mata Atlantica" is Part of 'Atlantic Forest', It's such a Unique Forest that inhibits biodiversity 🌿 just like "Amazon Rainforest" But it's mostly neglected because people don't know about it, as its not famous as 'Amazon' ! 😐

[@Noah.06]

​​​​​​@@ioium299 KKKKKK AH NÃO CARA TU NÃO MANDOU UMA DESSA. Os lençóis maranhenses são um pequeno "deserto/praia", inundado, com menos de 1600km² e faz parte de outro bioma 🤣🤣🤣. Não tem nenhuma espécie 100% única de lá, quem dirá plantas!

[@irmaosmatos4026]

@@virendradeshmukh2935 it is heavily inhabited by the brazilian population, existing in sparce areas today.

[@Ace-ki3rr]

The frog trying to eat the bug and missing at 1:30 is the best thing I’ve seen all day. 10/10 video.

[@abhinay172]

"Mr. Frog" check that out your day will get even better.

[@keyurkulkarni4011]

Incredible video! Best wishes from India 🇮🇳

[@iidentifyMyselfAfemalepotato]

The video was great and I admire it but sadly He showed the wrong map of India ,at least he could show them as disputed area if not in India. 😢

[@iidentifyMyselfAfemalepotato]

@@suryanshusingh8863 lol , wdym this video is not intended for Indian viewers ? This video is for everyone that is interested in the topic and that includes Indians as well. And let me repeat my concern with this video again , when you talk about India in your video , a video that includes Indian viewers , you must respect it's sovereignty. That's all I said.

[@official.rajarshidutta]

​@@suryanshusingh8863 lol. Wtf😂 how did you come to that conclusion

[@Jack-ri3dy]

@@suryanshusingh8863 see map of China with that of Taiwan (accepted hai worldwide?) kya baat krte ho. 1.43 billion out of 8 billion don’t accept this map. Others will show indifference because it doesn’t concern them. But it’s sad to see that you’re putting their acceptance above your own. It’s the censorship from China they fear.

[@wallingnaga6563]

@@official.rajarshidutta I doesn’t matter!! Showing map to satisfied some Indian bloggers isn’t the main objective of this video. Infact we should encourage people to use this map as we don’t own POK at all even though we “Claim” the land.

[@vikorovstock2432]

1:30 That is the worst frog.

[@Textbooktravel]

Lol! Totally useless! Here is the full clip, it has several attempts! 😂 www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-1062252073-frog-dyscophus-antongilii-trying-catch-cockroach-slow

[@Edward4Plantagenet]

@@Textbooktravel , i think, at last he got successful. Because frog was pushing his eyes, they do it to push prey in the stomach. Push through eyes.

[@nilsp9426]

Probably trying to mindgame his prey 100% of the time.

[@andredepadua8799]

The fact he didn't showed pampas; and caatinga, cerrado and atlantic rainforest one featured one species each. And yet, still delivers how much biodiverse Brazil is...

[@saivinaypavanan7334]

Just getting pumped up about the biodiversity in bazil is ironic when the amazon is being destroyed at a devastating rate

[@chimpazoo1143]

​​@@saivinaypavanan7334 It's fantastic actually! When more people are interested by it, the more effort will be made towards preservation

[@ROCKNROLL947]

Not so impressive, actually, considering the size. The guy didn't show other ecosystems of Colombia and Ecuador, and they're way smaller, so that's actually impressive.

[@bernardobocchi8885]

Mico leão Dourado, the little gold monkey that appeared in the pictures about Brazil isn't from Amazon, but, from Atlantic Forest. We in Brazil learn in School that the Atlantic Forest was more biodiverse than Amazon, but by historical reasons was 80% devastated.

[@DaviFigueiraChavez]

​@@ROCKNROLL947 Well the size doesn't matters, the thing that matters is which biome you takes. South American countries are megadiverses cuz they have portions of the Amazon, Papua new Guinea is small and also extremely rich but it is expected considering it sits totally in a rainforest biome

[@jerry3790]

I am from Cape Town and we actually have a race track in which the middle area has remained mostly undisturbed. As a result, it contains several plant species that simply do not exist outside of it, with it being just over half a square kilometre in size

[@GrumpyTinashe]

Wow. Where is it meneer. What's it called I wanna visit it

[@Edward4Plantagenet]

4:05 India (top in vascular plants 45,000+) has 4 species of Bear, 15 species of Cats including Lion, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard & Cheetah recently, 2 species of Buffalo, Dolphin (Indus & Ganga) and Crocodile (Magar & Gavial), apart from Elephant, Rhino 🦏, Black Buck and Red Panda.

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

*Saltwater Crocodile in Eastern India

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

Pythons: Indian Rock Python, Burmese Python, Reticulated Python 31 species of Vipers 5 species of Cobras( Although King Cobra is not a true Cobra) 3 species of Sand Boas 9 species of Krait 7 species of Coral Snakes

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

15 species of Squirrel 3 species of Otters 6 species of Mongoose 9 species of Civets 4 species of Badgers(including the infamous honey badger) 3 species of Martens 5 species of Weasels 4 species of Wolf 6 species of Fox 3 species of Jackals 4 species of Hedgehog 2 species of Pangolin

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

Gaur: largest bovine & Mithun 5 types of Wild sheep 4 types of Gorals 9 types of Wild Goat 6 types of Antelope 14 types of Deer 10 types of Yak 4 types of Takins

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

30 types of Primates *gangetic & Indus are River Dolphins For example: Irrawaddy Dolphin & Indian Ocean Humpback Dolphin in coast. 16 species of Dolphin(including Orcas) can be found. 5 species of Baleen whales & 3 species of Sperm whales. Porpoise & Dugong

[@saaros]

as a southamerican, it pains me to comment how aware i was of all this beauty we share, that is being currently destroyed by reckless governments. when i got to the last part of the video, i couldn't help but tear up, with a bittersweet after taste.

[@jomoney2527]

De qué país eres?

[@dr.zoidberg8666]

Surely they're being destroyed by reckless capitalists & governments display their responsibility or irresponsibility by how well they control their capitalists.

[@goldenretriever1528]

me pasa lo mismo :( y después a los que intentan hacer algo al respecto, los matan

[@saaros]

@@jomoney2527 Colombia/Venezuela

[@varimatra2088]

It is a problem but it can be solved, here in brasil i voted for our new president hoping he would once again put a stop to this madness, destroyng our future to make ranchers rich. Whe still can save our rainforest whe just need to do ot together

[@ZM19.]

The DRC🇨🇩 is actually so beautiful. It’s wildlife is amazing. It’s a shame that it can’t become a safari/tourism powerhouse like Rwanda and Kenya have.

[@SlowToe]

Human interface is the enemy of natural behaviour. It's a win for the animals that there is no tourism.

[@justaregularrhino6529]

y

[@therewasoldcringe]

@@justaregularrhino6529 it has "democratic republic" in the name, so i guess they have a dictatorship that won't allow any fun

[@AZdude]

​@@justaregularrhino6529war

[@AZdude]

​@@justaregularrhino6529and instability..

[@JacobBennettNY]

I visited Peru in 2018 and it was the country that impressed me the most! Its mountains are from another planet, the country has more jungle than any other with the exception of Brazil, in Peru there are boiling rivers and they have the largest tropical mountain in the entire Amazon. I would return a thousand times more! love Peru

[@privatesocialhandle]

That frog's fail at 1:30 is absolutely hilarious! 😅

[@rshua]

Yeah that clip cracked me up a good bit and led to me finding your comment XD

[@MeguminIsWaifu]

@@rshua lol same here

[@Faerandur]

This video only has one flaw: It's too short. Every megadiverse country deserves its own dedicated video.

[@a.s.944]

Brazil and India ❤ 🇧🇷 🇮🇳

[@archit2894]

💖💖💖

[@archit2894]

Much love to you Armenia, please know that we Indians stand with you, we all are on your side when it comes to choose between Azerbaijan and Armenia💖🇮🇳🇦🇲

[@iamleoooo]

Maybe you can make separate video on each video focusing solely into details of its biodiversity in the future ;)? Always love your content, from Indonesia

[@veronicajulianadelvalle284]

Something not mentioned, but at the same time very important! The importance of Peru for the birth of the Amazon River, the mother of all "diversity" in South America! In the Peruvian Andes the Amazon River is born and it is precisely there where it all begins! Peru is one of the most mega diverse countries in the world, it occupies one of the first 3 places as a curious fact it has more camelids than any other country.

[@RobertGames2030]

😮😮😮

[@codycorwin51]

love Peru! amazing country

[@austinrobinson.w8349]

Peru is really beautiful

[@Jsksksidjd4421]

Por qué se lo robaron a ecuador 🤦🤨

[@inkari1981]

@@Jsksksidjd4421 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@timothychen754]

I just want to say the amount of research and effort put into this video is amazing. Seeing all these incredible species while you're giving us constant information is just simply amazing! I learned so many new incredible species. Great video!

[@morkss]

You always make really good videos, always really well paced and just the perfect amount of information.

[@Textbooktravel]

Thanks so much!

[@ignaciopazgarcia5370]

You are so underrated😢 this video is a masterpiece! Enjoyed every second of it!

[@TJSaw]

Fun fact - India has 8 big(ish) cats, more than any other country in the world. Bengal tiger, Asiatic lion, Indian leopard, snow leopard, clouded leopard, cheetah (reintroduced in 2022), caracal, Eurasian lynx all call India their home.

[@pritsingh9766]

@Jack Sparrow Are you from China?

[@phoenixofharvard5770]

@Jack Sparrow what the fk

[@phoenixofharvard5770]

@Jack Sparrow sankyu

[@phoenixofharvard5770]

@Jack Sparrow Joe mama

[@aether3697]

​@Jack Sparrow China will grow larger

[@Sherlochas]

I dont write comments usually but i really love the high quality content, and i see that this required a lot of work. Hope you grow and wish you the best. Thanks for the video ❤

[@lemonyz420]

Southeast Asia's megadiversity and nature is so beautiful.

[@adrianrutterford762]

Wonderful content, as usual. Thanks so very much

[@Aarav.B]

What an AMAZING VIDEO! I loveee it! Absolutely fantastic job!

[@Mrzana101]

This video is phenomenal! I've never seen some of these land animals before. I'm never surprised by the fish and bird variety, but some of these land ones have caught me off guard.

[@matzc557]

Colombia gets the plate medal in the overall rating and the gold in biodiversity density despite being significantly smaller than other countries like Australia, Brasil or USA. The Andes play a great role in this because it provides Colombia with almost every climate condition possible and divides Colombia in three. Because of that Colombia has three completely divided rainforests: the Amazon rainforest, the Tayrona and the Dairen witch is both the second most rainy and the most biodense region in the world because it is the bridge between South and Central America so it has all the flora and fauna of both continents

[@MayheM_646]

It's not the Darién. It's all of the Biogeographic Chocó in the Pacific coastline, which the Darién makes part of of course.

Some of your geographical names are very odd, basically wrong. The Darien is a small mountain range in the northern tip of the Pacific coast jungles (Biogeographic Choco is the right name). Tayrona is either an extinct pre-Columbian civilization or a relatively small national park on the Caribbean coast. Maybe you're thinking about the Magdalena river basin, which also has lowland tropical rainforests different from the Amazon and the Choco. The Andes split in three ranges in Colombia but I'm not sure why you say they split the country in three. Usually, the country is divided in 5 natural regions (Pacific, Caribbean, Andes, Llanos or Orinoquía, and the Amazon). BTW, lowland rainforests are not so important for explaining the country's biodiversity. For instance, the most biodiverse region is the Andes, not the Amazon.Also, other ecosystems like paramos, dry forests, savannahs, wetlands, xeric scrubland, cloud forests, and mangroves add a lot to the country's biodiversity.

[@sanjeevchauhan522]

One of the most beautiful video with high quality photography. ❤❤❤

[@Yan-gd4dv]

Ty ive been looking for a video like this to help plan road trips to the most diverse areas this helped

[@muhammadeisa1459]

Picturesque footage, soothing commentary and curious subject matter make for an excellent video. Keep it up.

[@Textbooktravel]

Thanks, Muhammad! Glad you enjoyed it

[@muhammadeisa1459]

@@Textbooktravel you're welcome!

[@liborrajm2916]

This was great, thanks. Always been fascinated by biodiversity. Was lucky and privileged to visit Indonesia and Madagascar in the past. If I manage to visit one more from the list, it would be Ecuador.

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

Thanks for the awesome presentation!

[@joeshmoe8345]

real cool, thanks for sharing this with us big G

[@ghazalaansari9283]

This is awesome buddy 👍 Wish you well P4U

[@gerardo5047]

Top 6 countries are located in Latin America. From 🇲🇽 to Brazil 🇧🇷 this region host the highest level of biodiversity in the world (Neotropical realm)

[@Mrmidknight-yx9pg]

With the us as 7 that makes the western hemisphere more biodiversity then the eastern hemisphere take that old world

[@psyche1182]

@@Mrmidknight-yx9pg us is 10th

[@psyche1182]

This is wrong…Only 4 are, Peru, colombia Brazil and Mexico. The rest are Indonesia (second) and china

[@DaviFigueiraChavez]

​@@psyche1182 I think you missed Ecuador and Venezuela

[@psyche1182]

@@DaviFigueiraChavez those aren’t in top 6 wdym

[@christinaa.1165]

Amazing content! Loved the video!

[@kristhyansc]

🎉🎉 What an amazing video. Thank u

[@aureaphilos]

This was a great video; I was impressed by how much information you packed into 19 minutes. Just a note: the compass direction that appears 'right' on maps is named "West" not "East"! ( South Africa is west of Madagascar, the Galapagos are west of Ecuador).

[@martijn9568]

I noticed that too, but I think that he tried to do it from the perspective of South Africa rather than Madagascar. I think the script may have been rewritten a couple of times that made this a mistake😅

[@philtarpehdixon7441]

I spotted that too.

[@twelvefareyoothuca3595]

Wonderful Indonesia❤🇮🇩 Great Video👏🏾🙏🏾 Thanks brother

[@FidgetSpinner1]

Excellent video, loved it

[@biondisubbaiah]

Good info vid, well researched.

[@crash10125]

Mexico's nature is absolutely beautiful and must be protected!

[@amir2510]

Tqs a lot for this information bro . Love From India 🙏🇮🇳💪❤️❤️❤️

[@hugong8518]

Yet another amazing video!

[@OpaSpielt]

An extremely informative video. Thank you 🖐👴👍

[@sarabrownosullivan7163]

Peru is sooo beautiful love place!

[@pottertheavenger1363]

Mexico also has 7 of all marine turtles and 450 species of oaks.

[@aswinpc229]

Thanks for this video

[@gireeshjoshi7220]

Water work truly incredible information amazing Masterpiece video thank you so much

[@COLOMBIAFRANK]

That is a very cool and informative video, thank you! I find it very interesting, that Colombia does not rank in the top 10 for fish as it is number 2 for fresh water fish. Additionally we have 2 coasts and various islands and one might think that would add up.

[@MayheM_646]

Yeah, I was thinking the same. This guy didn't even talk about the Tayrona park or the Pacific coastlines in the Biogeographic Chocó/Darién rainforest. That would've added a lot but he skipped it.

[@draphotube4315]

Love your channel!

[@hemanthk4075]

Great video!!

[@josieschultz4241]

love the vid, i just have a couple suggestions. it would be wonderful to include the scientific name for the species as well as the common name when you put the labels in the lower left corner. also, it would be great to have more categories for the plants (nonvascular, seedless vascular, gymnosperm, angiosperm). Plants are very important to get people interested in because we do not have enough botanists compared to zoologists

[@AM22Salabok]

Really cool video, is there somewhere to see the "placements" of each country for every category?

[@AM22Salabok]

Nevermind, found the source in the pinned comment

[@bryn763]

Amazing content!

[@MadMarco]

Beautiful video!

[@Carlosr2rp]

In one Amazonian tree you can find more ant species than in the entire Europe!

[@MayheM_646]

And in the entire North America as well. Those poor boys have as little ant species as Europe.

[@automnejoy5308]

@@MayheM_646 lol... As a North American, I can assure you that nobody up here is crying about it.

[@golamrabbi9151]

great work

[@barlevyoav]

Great video ❤

[@alandouglasbr1839]

Brazil has several biomes other than the Amazon, full of endemic species.

[@kamogelomosweu1869]

He only mentioned flora and fauna not found in other countries

[@Edward4Plantagenet]

Very well done. Very informative video.👍🏻😊 You can add tables and rankings of these countries in different categories. Mistakes - 1:36 Western Coastline ✅ 16:13 West of ✅

[@OpaSpielt]

The Galapagos islands I noticed too. The other I thought he meant the east coast of the Mozambique Channel, but perhaps I didn't listen properly. Edit: "On it's eastern coastline the Mozambique Channel separates Madagascar from..." Perhaps "it's" refers to the eastern coast of the channel, but it's also possible that he meant the west coast of Madagascar. 🖐👴

[@timothychen754]

also, 18:12 is not a corydora, it looks like a bristlenose pleco

[@abdulraoufk205]

great video

[@kshitijbachhav5332]

Amazing video. Greetings from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@jerryjiang6009]

Hi, quick comment. The fish you labelled as "cardinal tetra" are actually neon tetras. The red stripe of cardinals go all the way across the bottom half of the body

[@spartanxf]

Brilliant video

[@mohamedabdelkader8665]

Awesomeness is watching this channel.

[@arvina94]

Actually, the main reason why the Philippines is considered megadiverse is because of extremely high endemism even for such a small area whose only real competition in this aspect is Madagascar. It's in the top 10 of number of endemic species for most categories, equalling and occasionally beating much larger countries from Madagascar to Brazil. It's not primarily about being in the Coral Triangle. Think about how special wildlife evolved in Hawaii and Galapagos, the Philippines is also an oceanic archipelago where species evolution and colonization worked with the same factors, but the Philippines is much older and much bigger and much nearer to major biodiversity centers, an island ecology on steroids.

[@lucaum4]

6:25 "marine mammals", with a whale shark and a bear icon on the screen 🤦‍♂

[@zekotaahmedmou5168]

Hi my friend!Love your videos very much.But can you make a video on seals and walruses? I will very appreciate that.

[@Guts268]

1:29 The frog doing a little trolling XD

[@Maslah111]

Imagine talking about Australia without mentioning Kangaroos.

[@tanostrelok2323]

It's either that or Emus, lol

[@shiroumxm2052]

I did not know my country Méxco was megadiverse! wow! but i makes sense since we have both ecozones: Neartic and neotropical.. so we share flora and fauna with Canada and USA but with central and southamerica aswell

[@MinotaurST87]

Nmms eso nos lo enseñan en la primaria jajajaj

[@reno.rodolfo3089]

Te lo enseñan desde la primaria

[@Renthlei_Jr]

1:30 bro tried his best

[@carlitos5336]

This was beautiful

[@ambergris5705]

Lovely video, with many surprises, and beautiful pictures to boot! Thank you also for giving indications on the methodology. After having checked the website of The Swiftest, I wonder what criterion they used for what counts as a countries territory: they counted Hawaii and Alaska as part of the US, but didn't count French Guyane as a part of France, even though administratively each of those territory are as much part of their respective country. I'm saying this because my guess would be that the diversity of countries like the UK, but especially France would skyrocket if their overseas territories could be included. Don't forget that France has territories in every ocean (except the Arctic), and on every continent (except Asia). Just imagine the diversity between mainland France and its big Western European territory, then the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique and Saint Martin, and then the Amazonian jungle and tropical coastline of French Guyane and the Indian Ocean waters of Reunion Island and Mayotte. And if that's still not enough, add the Polynesian Islands in Oceania, Saint-Pierre-Et-Miquelon Islands off the coast of Newfoundland, and, oh, maybe the biggest hotspot of wildlife in the Antarctic Ocean, the Kerguelen Islands. With also the Terre Adélie on Antarctica. So, my guess is that France would skyrocket in the list if these places were taken into account, and maybe even be counted in those 17 countries? Because right now it lags behind even Italy in the ranking...

[@goxokogoxoki6734]

I'm not surprised: France is not in the radar of many anglo-saxons nowadays. They do not know - or decide to ignore - the fact that France has the largest marine control on earth, with territories in latitudes as diverse as Europe, Caribbean, the Amazone, Indian Ocean islands (close to Madagascar), Antarctica and Polynesia...

[@FallenLight0]

And we brazilians are doing an amazing work destroying not only the Amazon but the Cerrado that has many endemic species, no one talks about Cerrado, but its destruction to create farmlands is unbelievable high

[@AbhishekVerma-vg6zb]

Yeah it's so dishearting to hear that ...people should conserve...there natural asset !!!

[@judyl.761]

This was great.

[@MylesHorace-xo2et]

My nephew and I loved your videos

[@harwin391]

Mexico being like 5 times smaller than the USA and not having the Amazon rainforest like its latinamericans counterparts yet it has more biodiverse than the USA is amazing to see

[@psyche1182]

It’s 5 times smaller??

[@emiliobertrandbungegonzale9961]

And imagine if Mexico never lost half of its territory to the US

[@estadosunidosmexicanos8451]

México comparte la selva mesoamerica con los países centroamericanos este gran bosque tropical se extiende desde el sureste mexicano pasando por todo centroamérica hasta concluir en Panamá esta considerado como el segundo pulmón de América después del Amazonas.

[@shiroumxm2052]

@@emiliobertrandbungegonzale9961 jajjajaja

[@luksavat7750]

You guys may be surprised, but Amazon rainforest is not the most biodiverse forest on the globe. This title belongs to the Atlantic rainforest (mostly in Brazil, but Argentina and Paraguay also have some of it). For some reason, the Atlantic rainforest is not as famous as the Amazon rainforest. So Mexico being one of the most biodiverse countries without having a share of the Amazon rainforest shouldn't be a surprise. Mexico is more biodiverse than USA especially because Mexico is mostly tropical, not the case of USA, and the tropical regions are where the most species of plants and animals live in. Very few species live in cold climates.

[@Clembo]

The only diversity that matters.

[@CamdenE]

I’m surprised Thailand didn’t make the list, great video!

[@gianluca99g]

Best video on youtube ❤

[@hometv3618]

Now do a video for big 5 of each country!

[@nescaufrioemtbom1113]

Everything you showed in colombia or equador i ve seen here in the mata atlântica,not even in the amazon XD nature is very wild here

[@MayheM_646]

Hahaha u really wish u did that 😂. U don't even know the meaning of "endemic species" right?

[@nescaufrioemtbom1113]

@@MayheM_646 i ve already seen here tucans, sloths, 3 types of snakes, otters and the harpy eagle. Yes they re all present in mata atlântica too :)) pitty of you that probably lives on an apartment screaming to someone who really lives near and WITH The nature

[@calebscrazyamazinglife1795]

Ok I have to visit all off these

[@timtaylor8406]

Very educational, informative and interesting. Useful for world governments to help make environmental decisions

[@nousdefions.8159]

It's true Perú is one of the most biodiversity country from north the south because of the two kind of waves in the coast and the Andes mountains.

[@july9566]

Mexico 🇲🇽 whooo

[@TheECSH]

you have beautiful maps but unfortunately you included Taiwan as part of China twice. Politically incorrect aside, it also makes the endemic index inaccurate, because Taiwan, as an island, has a much higher degree of endemism.

[@babble4668]

i think you got your easts and wests mixed up but other than that great vid

[@SolamenteTavo]

We don't have that much but in little territory Costa Rica is more diverse than you can imagine

[@earb1_]

It would be interesting to see which countries have the most biodiversity per km2

[@Stark.......]

You forgot Snow leopards are in india 😍

[@alphonsusjimos9758]

Fun fact about Malaysia: 1. Largest tapir in the world the Malayan Tapir 2. Highest concentration of Black Panther in the world 3. Two species of elephant. West Malaysia - Asiatic Elephant and East Malaysia Borneo - Pygmy Elephant 4. Largest crocodile in the world the Saltwater Crocodile can be found in East Malaysia Borneo 5. Largest smallest heaviest longest fauna plus the 2nd oldest forest in the world the equatorial rainforest *Edited 6. Tallest tropical tree the Yellow Meranti (Shorea faguetiana) can be found in Danum Valley, Sabah

[@charlesjacob2336]

@TextbookTravel: Where did you get the globe false colour imagery? It’s awesome!

[@tdb7992]

Hello from Australia. I spend a lot of time in our forests hiking and looking at the different flora and fauna. It's a very impressive nation if you are interested in the natural world. I was hiking in the south-west part of the country last year and came across a group of elderly people with cameras. It turned out they were part of a fungi photography group and they would spend their weekend taking pictures of fungi. I thought they were the coolest people ever. There are many nature geeks here and I love that about Australia :)

[@countryballspredicciones5184]

Bro I am from Peru, not from Australia. But thanks for the comment in my video, greetings to Australia.

[@goldenretriever1528]

this made me teary eyed, our planet is truly a gem ♥️

[@nitishkalita1026]

Yeah, everything is great about this planet except humans 🤦🏾‍♂️ There would be far animals alive if humans never evolved

[@lioneldemun6033]

We are destroying it fast unfortunately

[@kytrama6455]

To illustrate how biosiverse Indonesia is the country has the 3rd longest coastline…one gold for the mamal event with 700 species, supports the second largest number of fish species, and 4th for the bird species and number of reptiles

[@eVill420]

in Finland it feels like you have 4 trees, 5 larger animals and like 10 small animals with 50 insects

[@automnejoy5308]

Well, you're doing better than Iceland or Greenland. 😉

[@richardsousa1901]

Proud of My country 🇧🇷💛

[@kennethray8296]

Peru is the second country with the most Amazonian territory in the world, the investigations are not exact, Peru should be among the top 3 places in Megadiversity together with Brazil, the country is covered by the jungle in more than 65% of its territory, it is the 4th country in the world with more tropical forests and they have the Andes, in fact the Amazon River is born in the Andes of Peru! Peru has almost all the microclimates in the world, the diversity in this country is huge and little studied. It is a wonderful country, you can go to see herds of wild alpacas in Cusco, cities of monkeys in the jungle and hundreds of penguins on the desert coast.

The reason is that, contrary to what the video states, the Amazon is not the main driver of biodiversity in Brazil, nor in Colombia (the "Amazonian" countries that rank better than Peru). In these countries there are other non Amazonian regions that contribute significantly more to their biodiversity, and I think that also happens in Peru (at least I think that the Andes are more diverse, as it happens in Colombia, especially if you include the Peruvian Yungas). The other surpassing countries are Mexico, Indonesia, and China. All these five countries have a more diverse arrange of rich eco regions than Peru. Think about the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, and the Cerrado; Colombia's Choco rainforest connecting to North America and its three Andean ranges and inter Andean valleys; or Mexico's very diverse arid ecosystems or its coniferous forests; or the many islands of Indonesia and its mixture of Asiatic and Oceanian fauna and flora, etc. So it's important to have a big expanse of a species-rich ecosystem; but it's also important to have a good diversity of those ecosystems.

[@yjvie]

I’ve been to the Mexican jungle, Selva Lacandona. I had no idea there were jungles, tropical rainforests, or cloud forests there until I visited two summers ago with my gf. After seeing all that, I can definitely see how it’s reached the list. The sandunes in Brazil were also a trip when I visited. Biodiversity is amazing to see all over the world