most biodiverse country
on Earth, with more than 56,000
described species of plants, 1,700 species of
birds, 695 amphibians, 578
mammals, and 651 reptiles
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Due to the vastness of the Amazon
Brazil holds one third of the worlds remaining rainforests, including a majority of the Amazon rainforest. There are more than 56,000 species of plants, 1700 species of birds, 695 amphibians, 578 mammals and 651 reptiles.
Experts estimates that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest
deforestation. That equates to 50,000 species a year. As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for
life-threatening diseases.
well here i found a bit of info in the amazon rainforest situated in brazil
There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five centuries ago. Today there are less
than 200,000.
In Brazil alone, European colonists have destroyed more than 90 indigenous tribes since the 1900's. With them have
gone centuries of accumulated knowledge of the medicinal value of rainforest species. As their homelands continue to
be destroyed by deforestation, rainforest peoples are also disappearing.
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The Amazon rainforest, also known as Amazonia, is one of
the world's greatest natural resources. Because its vegetation continuously
recycles carbon dioxide into oxygen, it has been described as the "Lungs of our
Planet". About 20% of earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon
rainforest.
The amazon rainforest continuosly recycles carbon dioxide into oxygen and thats why its also known as the "Lungs of our Planet" and the amazon rainforest also produces round about 20% of our earth's oxygen.
The Amazon rainforest (Brazilian Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonia), also known as Amazonia, or the Amazon jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), of which five and a half million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, and with minor amounts in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. States or departments in four nations bear the name Amazonas after it. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world.
The Amazon rainforest was short-listed in 2008 as a candidate to one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature by the New Seven Wonders of the World Foundation. As of February 2009 the Amazon was ranking first in Group E, the category for forests, national parks and nature reserves.
The Amazon Rainforest is a term widely used to describe the moist broadleaf forests of the Amazon Basin. It encompasses 7 million km2 (1.2 billion acres), with parts located within nine nations: Brazil (with 60% of the rainforest), Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. This forest represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests.