To give some examples, 13,000 plant species are known to exist in the whole of Europe, but over 15,000 different species have been discovered in the rainforest of Ecuador alone. In the Amazon rainforest, there are Between 5 and 30 million plants! It’s not surprising that not all those plants have been studied yet, but the 30,000 plants that have been given names by scientists represent 10% of all the plants in the world. In Europe, there are about 200 different species of freshwater fish, but in the rainforests of the Amazon almost 3,000 types have been identified. Overall, rainforests contain 30% of the world’s bird species, 90% of all primates** In fact, the variety living things in rainforests is second to none.