of the world’s animal and plant species are found in the Amazon.
people, including 350 indigenous groups, live in the Amazon
of the world’s fresh water is in the Amazon Basin.
Scientists are noticing something disturbing in the Amazon rainforest: deforestation is leading to the failure of the forest ecosystem. Many scientists believe we are reaching a tipping point, and at current deforestation rates in the Amazon, within a few decades the Amazon biome may cease to be a rainforest and become savanna-like with semiarid vegetation.
Image (below) is of an area representing 1,180 km² in Rondonia, Brazil. eveal decade
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