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Amazon Rainforest | Plants, Animals, Climate, & Deforestation

Brazil holds approximately 60 percent of the Amazon within its borders. How many species does the Amazon Rainforest contain? The Amazon Rainforest is the ...

Brazil and the Amazon Forest - Greenpeace USA

The Amazon rainforest is the world's largest intact forest. It is home to more than 24 million people in Brazil alone, including hundreds of thousands of ...

Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon ...

About the Amazon | WWF - Panda.org

Not only does the Amazon encompass the single largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world, it also houses at least 10% of the world's known ...

The Amazon Rainforest - National Geographic Education

Occupying much of Brazil and Peru, and also parts of Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Suriname, French Guiana, and Venezuela, the Amazon River Basin is ...

Amazon Rainforest | The Nature Conservancy

Nearly the size of the continental United States, the Amazon spans nine countries (Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, ...

How to visit the Amazon rainforest in Brazil: A complete guide

How to visit the Amazon rainforest in Brazil: A complete guide · Jungle walk: · Canoe or boat tour: · Giant Amazon water lilies: · The beaches ...

Brazil Amazon Rainforest - Rainforest Foundation US

For over 35 years, Rainforest Foundation US has supported Brazil's Indigenous peoples in defending their rights and territories across the Amazon rainforest ...

The Amazon Rainforest - WWF-UK

The Amazon covers a huge area (6.7 million sq km) of South America. Nearly 60% of the rainforest is in Brazil, while the rest is shared among ...

Deforestation in the Amazon: past, present and future - InfoAmazonia

The Brazilian Amazon, – home to 62% of the Amazon's territory – was most affected, followed by Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. Deforestation in the ...

Here are our top facts about the Amazon - WWF-UK

The Amazon rainforest covers an enormous 6.7 million square kilometres. Spanning 8 countries and one overseas territory in South America and ...

Why is the Amazon rainforest important? | WWF - Panda.org

Brazil nuts Brazil nuts come from wild trees as they cannot be grown in plantations Belém. © Edward Parker / WWF.

The Brazilian Amazon Fund - Rainforest Trust

The Challenge: Stop Deforestation. Approximately 18% of the Amazon has been deforested, with 2.9 million acres of forest in Brazil destroyed in 2022 alone.

Amazon rainforest: Deforestation rate halved in 2023 - BBC

The rate of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell by nearly 50% in 2023 compared to the previous year, space agency data suggests.

Deforestation remains low, but fires surge in Brazil's Amazon rainforest

The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has remained near a six-year low despite a surge in the number of fires burning in Earth's ...

Amazon | Places | WWF - World Wildlife Fund

In Brazil, through the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) program, WWF worked to support and expand a network of parks covering 154 million acres of forest.

Deforestation in the Amazon - Council on Foreign Relations

In the last fifty years, Brazil's Amazon has lost about a fifth of its forest cover—almost 300,000 square miles.This includes at least 5,110 square miles lost ...

Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest - Ballard Brief

Between 2001 and 2012, forest losses in the Amazon biome averaged about 1.4 million hectares per year, totaling 17.7 million hectares, mostly in ...

Inside the Amazon Rainforest: Part 1 | Brazil Travel - YouTube

A unique travel documentary staying in the Amazon jungle on the Amazon River. Join us in the epic first of this 2 part adventure into the ...

Protecting the Amazon Rainforest and River Basin

Farmers like Brazil's Rosely Dias are leading the way. Immersive Video. Visit an Amazon Food Forest. Nourishing Communities ( ...