Initially, the Ministry of the Environment planned to evaluate 7 thousand species of fauna and flora. By last June, 8,761 species had been analyzed, 5,511 of fauna and 3,250 of flora.
Of the species, 32,696 are angiosperms (vascular plants with fruit, like the palm tree), 23 are gymnosperms (vascular plants with no fruit, like the pine tree), 6,320 are fungi, and 4,972 are algae; 1,584 are bryophytes (mosses), and 1,380 are ferns.
A new bird species, discovered in a narrow strip in the Atlantic Forest, on the coast of the northeastern state of Bahia, has already been reported as endangered.
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