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The Amazon Rainforest:
The Amazon rainforest, also known as the Amazon Jungle or Amazonia in English, is a rain forest covered in the Amazonas in South America. The Amazon rainforest is the largest forest in the world that spans the Amazon River and its tributaries. It has an area of 2510000 square miles, roughly the equivalent of the whole of Australia. Due to deforestation and wildfires, forest area is decreasing rapidly. It is estimated that half of all living species in the world are found in this forest. The forest extends to 9 countries, including Brazil (60% of the rainforest is located in this country), Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. The four countries have states or territories called Amazonas. This area is also known as Amazonia. The area is home to over 2.5 million species of insect pests, millions of plants and over 2,000 species of birds and mammals. According to the research, so far 40,000 plants, 3,000 fish, 1294 birds, 427 mammals, 427 amphibians and 378 reptile species have been found. Scientists say that only 96660 to 128843 non-invertebrate animal species are found in Brazil.
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This forest is five and a half million years old. Amazon is a Greek word meaning a warrior woman. About 20% of the earth's oxygen produces only the Amazonian trees and plants. 40% of the world's animals, birds, birds, insects are found in the Amazon. There are more than 400 wild tribes inhabited, with a population estimated at around 1.5 million. These people are living in the wild in the twenty-first century, some areas of it are so dense that there is no sunlight and there is night and day even here. In just a few seconds, the Amazon River is the world's largest river by water, its length is 7,000 kilometers, 30,000 species of fish are found in the Amazon River. There are still anonymous spiders here that are so big and powerful that the birds catch the fruits Thousands of species of astronauts and biologists have yet to reach only 10% of this forest. If you are in the dense forests of the Amazon and the monsoon rains, you will have no rain water for about 12 minutes.
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