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Amazon Rainforest
largest Rainforests in the world
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5,500,000km2 |
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Tropical |
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Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana
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The
Amazon rainforest scarcely needs an introduction. It is the world’s
largest rainforest and spans nine countries in total, covering 40% of
South America.
The Amazon represents over half of the planet’s remaining rainforests
and is home to an estimated 390 billion individual trees divided into
16,000 species. In fact, the Amazon is home to a tenth of all known
species on Earth.
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However,
this vast wilderness is under relentless threat from large-scale
farming and ranching, development, logging, mining and climate change.
With the majority (60%) of the Amazon within Brazil, the country
shoulders huge responsibility.
Between 2000 and 2012, the rate of deforestation in Brazil slowed by
75%. However, data from 2017-2018 suggest there has been a 13.7%
increase on the previous year with the biggest area of forest cleared
since 2008.
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