Facts about the Amazon Rainforest

by Kricket
(Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia)

The rainforest in Bolivia

The rainforest in Bolivia

The Amazon rainforest produces more than 20% the world's oxygen supply. The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean. The volume of water in the Amazon river is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all rivers in the United States.

According to wikipedia "The main sources of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest are human settlement and development of the land. Between 1991 and 2000, the total area of forest lost in the Amazon Rainforest rose from 415,000 to 587,000 km², an area more than six times the size of Portugal, with most of the lost forest becoming pasture for cattle. In February, 2008, the Brazilian government announced that the rate at which the Amazon rainforest is being cut down has increased significantly over the past few months. During the last five months of 2007, more than 3,200 sq. kilometers (an area equivalent to the size of the state of Rhode Island, in United States) was deforested during a time when deforestation would normally drop...At the current rate, in two decades the Amazon Rainforest will be reduced by 40%..."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_Rainforest

Bet you didn't know.
Kricket

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May 25, 2018
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by: Anonymous

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Feb 18, 2015
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by: annmariapeter

The bamboos in the rainforest is 9 inch per day. There are more than 8000 different species of plants there. And 200 more species of beautiful and variety butterflies. 80 % of the animals in the rainforest cannot be be found anywhere else.

Jul 29, 2013
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by: onyx eagle

Il est tres bien et short!

Apr 18, 2012
good info
by: Holly...x

good info!

Sep 05, 2011
Que malo :(
by: Anonymous

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