<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Wildlife of the Philippines includes a significant number of endemic plant and animal species . The country's surrounding waters reportedly have the highest level of marine biodiversity in the world . The Philippines is considered as one of the seventeen megadiverse countries as well as global biodiversity hotspot . In the 2000 Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), 418 of the country's 52,177 species were listed as threatened . </P> <P> The Philippines has among the highest rates of discovery in the world with sixteen new species of mammals discovered in the last ten years . Because of this, the rate of endemism for the Philippines has risen and likely will continue to rise . </P>

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