Did you know that...?

...between 3 and 100 million different life forms exist in the world? Most of these have not even been discovered yet.

...there are about 40,000 species of animals and 3,000 species of plants in Switzerland?

...you need a book weighing 3 kg to be able to identify all the plants in Switzerland?

...there are 72 species of animals and plants in Switzerland that are on the world’s endangered list?

...today an estimated 10,000 to 25,000 species become extinct every year? This is the equivalent of about 1 to 3 species per hour. This extinction rate is about a thousand times faster than ever before.

...the animal and plant species living today represent only 2 to 4% of the species that have ever existed on earth?

...floodplain forests, mixed hardwood forests and calcareous grasslands are among the most species-rich ecosystems in Switzerland?

...as many as 34 different species of plants can be found in an area of calcareous grassland measuring about 20 by 20 cm in the Jura Mountains?