The Amazing Amazon
Lungs of the Planet
Where is it and why is it so important?
The Amazon rainforest is located in South America. It covers over 2 million square miles of land. Brazil has 60%, Peru has 13%, and Colombia has 10%. The Amazon is the world's largest tropical rainforest, containing the Earth's greatest biological reservoir - around 30% of all species are found there; there are more than 50,000 species of plants, 1,700 species of birds and between 500 and 700 different types each of amphibians, mammals and reptiles.
A vibrant world threatened
The tools of utter destruction
The effect of corporate greed
Our Jungle Inhabitants
Deforestation
What is being Done to Protect the Rainforest?
Jungle Plant Life
Janalee Caldwell, Rainforest Ecologist
Sources
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/080508_why_amazon_important.shtml
http://www.softschools.com/facts/wonders_of_the_world/amazon_rainforest_facts/98/
http://sciencevibe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/rainforestflowers4.jpg
http://travel.mongabay.com/colombia/images/co04-1120a.html
http://travel.mongabay.com/pix/sloth_picture.html
http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/mammals.html
http://www.rainforest-facts.com/rainforest-destruction.html
http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/images/plants/treetrunk.jpg
http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/plants/buttress.html
Weston Church
11/15/15
Myers, 4th Period