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The Great Amazon Rainforest
By Holly Kane Wait! You over there! Come and learn about the Great
Amazon! There‛s animals and plants. Don‛t be shy! Darn it! I guess
it‛s just you and me. Well then… let's get started!
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world. You wrote
that down, right? The Amazon Rainforest covers millions of acres of land in South
America. It is in Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and Eastern Andean. More
than %20 of the world's oxygen comes from the Amazon. If you didn‛t know, most
of our world's oxygen comes from trees. Anyway, the Amazon is home to 40,000
plant species, 3,000 freshwater fish species and more than 370 types of reptiles.
Moving on, let's talk about animals!
​Amazon
Animals
Sloths are tree
dwellers in
central and
south america
areas.They
spend most of
their time
sleeping for 15
to 20 hours of
the day. There
are 6 different
species of
sloths in the
Amazon
Rainforest.
Jaguars are good
swimmers and
climbers. They live
in big, empty
spaces in the
Amazon
Rainforest. Right
now they are
hunted for their
fur or they are
killed because
farmers don‛t
want them eating
there livestock.
Poison Dart frogs
skin is brightly
colored to warn
predators that it is
not safe to eat. If
a predator does
eat it it will be
paralysed or killed
from the poison in
its skin.
Some of the many animals that live
in the Amazon are Macaws,
Jaguars, Poison Dart Frogs,
Amazon River Dolphins, Black
Spider Monkeys, Sloths and many,
many more!
The amazon
River Dolphin is
also known as
the Pink River
Dolphin or Boto.
It is one of the
only dolphins
that live in
freshwater.
There is about
10,000 of them
in the world. It
lives in Orinoco,
The Amazon,
Bolivia, Brazil,
Colombia,
Ecuador,
Guyana, Perú
and Venezuela
Macaws mate for
life unlike most
birds. When the
Macaws mate they
stick together
forever. In some
cases the other
partner dies
before the other
and the other one
will not eat
because it the
bird is so sad. The
Macaws pretty
feather can lead
poachers to them.
Meaning the
poachers will see
the bright
feathers and
shoot them.
The Black Spider
Monkey live north
of the Amazon
River. There are 7
diffrent spieces
Spider Monkeys.
Spider Monkeys
are important to
the rainforest.
They help put
seeds in the ground
so new seeds can
grow. This is called
seed dispersal.
ANIMALS ARE
AMAZINGLY
AWESOME!
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Deforestation Effects on the Amazon Rainforest
and Beyond
Deforestation means the clearing of trees, transforming a forest open space
18 billion trees are cut down every year.
Half of the world's forest have been cut down.
Forest are 30% of the worlds land.
36 football fields worth of trees are destroyed every minute.
Deforestation has increased rapidly in the past 50 years!
Deforestation is happening because urbanization to make paper, furniture and
homes.
★ Burning is the most used solution to make more space for building and farms.
★ We cannot plant all the the different tree species that we have cut down because a
lot of species have probably died out.
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Amazon Rainforest People
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More than 30 million people live in the Amazon and more than 350 ethnic groups
too. The Amazon people rely on the forest for food, shelter and livelihood. Most live in
Urban centers and some people are illegally logging protected parts of the Amazon. Some
people are cutting down trees for gold mining, oil exploration, illegal logging and fishing.
Amazon people also use the Amazon rainforest for medicine. They get the medicence from
the plants and trees.
Amazon Rainforest Plants
In the Amazon rainforest you rarely see the same type of trees next to each other.
The Amazon is critical to our air supply because trees give the earth air! The trees supply
the Amazon people simple medicines. The brazilian nut tree is one of the most poplar trees
in South America. The tree has very yummy nuts! In the Amazon, it rains a lot so the
plants always have water to keep them alive. Many animals live in the trees and some get
there food and water from the trees. Most live in the canopy. The canopy is the middle
section of a tree.
Well thank for listening! Bye!