s more species of birds than either North America or Europe. Scientists believe that 10% of all the species of birds in the world can be found in Thailand. It also holds 10% of fish, 5% of reptiles and 3% of amphibians. Thailand used to be over 70% covered by forests, but now only about twenty percent remains covered with rainforest. This has hurt the animal population greatly. In just 60 years at least twelve species have gone extinct. Many more are endangered or classified as very rare.
             Although the area that is now called Thailand has been inhabited for more than forty thousand years it did
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