Amazon Rainforest: 5 Interesting Facts

1. The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world.

2. It covers most of the Amazon Basin, and encompasses a jaw-dropping 1.7 billion acres.

3. The Amazon is an amazing 2,123,562 square miles big.

4. Approximately 438,000 species of plants are found in this jungle.

5. Deforestation of the Amazon has fortunately decreased dramatically since 2004.

Reasons we chop down the Amazon

1. They do it for money, so they can buy stuff.

2. For resources, such as wood and paper.

3. The main reason is to make way for cows and cattle ranches to move in so people can harvest resources like beef and burgers.

4. People need to make mines, roads, houses and many other things. But they need the space that the trees are taking up.

5. People want to create electricity from the water in the Amazon River, but the trees are in the way.

Reasons to keep the Amazon

The Amazon Rainforest is a massive area in South America where lots of wildlife and trees live. Here are reasons to save it.

1. Trees provide us with oxygen and takes carbon dioxide out of the air (It's not good if we have to much
CO2 in the air)

2. Over a quarter of the modern medicines we have are made from trees. If we cut them down they won't be any.

3. Trees keep soil in place so without trees, soil would be scarce.

4. They also give animals places to live. Without trees, those animals would die out.

5. The Amazon holds most of the world's water. Without the trees, we would have a lot, LOT less water.


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