The Amazon Rainforest is located in Brazil. It is famous for it’s Amazon River, which is the second largest river in the world behind the Nile River. But the main point about this essay is deforestation. Right at this moment the Amazon Rainforest is losing lots of things like it’s fine trees and the wildlife because group of people are making their living using the resources of the Amazon. I will talk about six groups in the Amazon Rainforest. Their names are Native Amazonians, Rubber Tappers, Loggers, Settlers, Cattle Ranchers, and Environmental Group.
The first group’s that I will talk about are the groups that is causing the deforestation in the Amazon. These three group are called Loggers, Settlers, and Cattle Ranchers. The Loggers are…
You can find over 20 species of stingrays. Even though the mouth of the Amazon River is the saltwater Atlantic Ocean, the river itself is freshwater. It said that the Amazon was once a lake, during the Ice Age, the sea levels dropped during the lake into a river. It is said that its the largest in discharge and second in the world in length. Research also say that its is eleven times the size of the United States largest river, the Mississippi River. Its daily freshwater discharge into the Atlantic is enough to supply New York Citys freshwater needs for nine years. The Amazon freshwater can travel up to 125 miles before its freshwater turns into saltwater. Its has 1.4 billion acres of dense forest, half of the planets remaining forest. The Amazon Basin is 2.6 million square miles and that take up 40% of South America. The Amazon Rainforest contain 90-140 metric tons of carbon dioxide. It homes over 2 and a half billion insect species and over 40,000 plant species. There are many dangerous animals that make their home here in the Amazon like the cougar, jaguar, and the anaconda. 10% of the worlds known species live in the Amazon and 20% of the worlds known birds live in the Amazon. In the past 40 years, 20% of the Amazon Rainforest will have been chopped down and used. It covers over 5.5 million square miles, so big that the United Kingdom and Ireland can go into it 17 times. In 2007, a man named Martin Strel, swam the entire Amazon River. It took him 66 days to complete his…
