Amazon Rainforest

Amazon Rainforest
View of the Amazon Rainforest
Photo by: markg6, Creative Commons

The Amazon Rainforest, which is also known as the Amazon Jungle, is located in South America and covers the Amazon River basin. The Amazon River is considered to be the largest river as far as discharge is concerned. Most of the forest is in Brazil (60%), Peru (13%) and some other countries like Venezuela, Colombia, French Guiana, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, and Suriname. Amazon Rainforest is the largest and biggest rainforest in the world and makes about half of the planet’s rainforest space. According to historians, the Amazon Jungle was created millions of years ago when the Amazon River changed its flowing direction from the West to East direction.

Amazon Rainforest or Amazonia is also considered a mysterious and powerful place containing a huge variety of animal species which comprise of mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians. Many medical and pharmaceutical agencies are running projects in the jungle for gaining plant knowledge and doing drug research.

In today’s world, the environmentalists are deeply concerned due to deforestation, destruction and the loss of bio-diversity in the Amazon Jungles. Due to new and developing human settlements, the issue of deforestation has increased many folds. Before the year 1960, access to Amazon interiors was restricted, but due to farming practices in the later years, there has been a lot of damage to the Forests. Also, due to pollution and carbon emissions, the growth pattern in the trees and plants has drastically changed, which is unacceptable.

36 Responses to “Amazon Rainforest”

  1. Frwed says:

    Awesome !!!!!

    :)
    :)
    :)

  2. snowygloss says:

    This doesnt have any good information. this needs to be more detailed about the plant and animal life. It might give a very VERY brief overview, but it doesn’t give anything really that useful. This could use work.

  3. Beth says:

    Why duant this have enything good to help me with my homework

  4. ooooooooo says:

    Wats good about this

  5. margaret says:

    what town is it in?? and its in Venezuela right ?

  6. sophie says:

    this was sort of crap and i didn’t r eally like it. but it did have some good features like ………………………….. well ok it doesn’t have any good features but but it sort of intresting to read ish. ok well it is a good website for pictures OK. by have a good weekend
    love you loads.
    sophie

  7. Sandra Reynaldo says:

    Congratulations. I’m brazilian and the information above is exact, although not complete, but it seems to meet the goal of transmiting general information about a site. Good work.

  8. that cute girl. says:

    thankss soooo much hlped haps with a project assignment for school!! ;DDDD

  9. poptart says:

    heyy umm this donent give enogh info for my report

  10. sosay3356 says:

    awsom

  11. dropy says:

    well it dose need work:(

  12. m,h, says:

    awesomeeeeeeeeeeeee

  13. tjmaitland says:

    well well screw the forest down with it

  14. Awsome says:

    This helped me with my homework thanks

  15. blah blah blah says:

    this was ok, but needs work. an more information

  16. sophia says:

    this is sooo short! it needs wayyyyyyy more info i only got like 2 notes for my report! it needs a lot of work

  17. Griffin says:

    WOW! This is kinda suckish! Oh well. It gave me the information I needed. xD GET MORE INFO!!

  18. pink128 says:

    no offence yeah but you lt are just rude!
    it was only meant to be a simple description of the location of the rainforest. not an essay over it!
    if you want overdetailed descriptions of it, go to wikipedia!
    you lot need to get a life, seriously.
    o and thankyouu, i found it helpful with my homework :)

  19. lala says:

    i havent even read it yet but ya you guys are rude!!! jk i dont realy care wht u think cuase as long as it helped me with my homework im cool

  20. xena** says:

    you guys suck this passage gave a good amount of in fo ON THE LOCATION OF THE RAINFOREST!!! what the hell didnt you get about that morons…..
    -thanks for the help!<3xoxox

  21. granson says:

    this is a great website , nice ,with short article and lot of advertisement but the pictures too few.

  22. NOOB says:

    OMG IM ON THE INTERNET>>>>
    HaLO ReAcH ROckS

  23. Human1896 says:

    This has good info but It should have more explaining about the wildlife, plants and animals.

  24. lily says:

    this does even sayy the exact location it could be anywhere in south america

  25. Angel MEG* says:

    My dad and I love this! From all the awesome pages of National Geo to reality! I am just so excited! =)

  26. hammad says:

    it is tooooooooooooooooo good

  27. kay says:

    coool man

  28. Sam says:

    Wow guys chill . Its not that big of a deal that you guys cant do your hw -.-
    Its not this guys fault he gave a breif & interesting description. Good work to this guy .(:
    & get a life to those people who “hate” this website. Dont read it if you dont like it .

  29. Caroline says:

    Bolivia is planning to build HGIHWAY through the Amzon! WTF why would ANYONE bestupid enough to do that!!!???that pisses me off! Good work guy who wrote this! SAVE THE RAINFOREST and it’s inhabitants!!!

  30. ETMNM says:

    it is ok but it needs a lillte work. i got about 3 solid facts for my location part of the project so thnku lots!!!!

  31. Fresian1112 says:

    This does have good info, but if you dont like it, go to another website.

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