The Amazon rainforest, also known as Amazonia, is one of the world's greatest natural resources. Because its vegetation continuously recycles carbon dioxide into oxygen, it has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet". Rainforests are home to many unique plants and animals. The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, covering over five and a half a million square kilometres (1.4 billion acres).
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| The Amazon rainforest |
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| The Amazon rainforest |
Over half of the Amazon rainforest is located in Brazil but it is also located in other South American countries. The Earth has a surface area of 196.9 million square miles.
The Amazon Rainforest covers 3.4 million square miles - this is less than 2% of the Earth's surface, yet this space produces more than 10 times that amounts worth of the world's oxygen!The rainforests have begun to be destroyed in the last 100 years to make way for farm land. Today, the rainforests are being destroyed by 1.5 acres every second.
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