Deforestation
By: Sullivan
Reasons for these causes
- Illegal Logging
- Farmers Cutdown trees for consumption or for growing crops
- People cutdown trees to sell
- To make new Settlements
Animals and Plants in the Amazon
- There is over 40,000 different species of plants
- There is approximately 10 million species of of animals in the Amazon
Amazon Facts
- Known as "The Planets Lungs" because it produces over 20% of the world oxygen
- It has 4,100 miles of curved rivers
- It has 1.4 billion acres of forests, which covers half of the planet's remaining tropical forests