Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: About 30,000 species of vascular plants live in the Andes with roughly half being endemic to the region , surpassing the diversity of any other hotspot .
Simplified: About 30,000 species of vascular plants live in the Andes . About half of those are endemic to the region , going past the difference of any other hotspot .