They live off of many different species of plants and so do many natives that live in the amazon. There is over 40,000 different species of plants in the rain forest. Some of them come in handy for medical reasons. A thing people don’t realize is that we need these plants, the amazon produces more than 20% of the world’s oxygen so the cutting down should be stopped.
The last reason the cutting down should stop is because the rain forest contains many different species of animals, plants, and insects that can’t be found anywhere else on this planet. There are 10 million species of animals, plants, and insects known to man and more than half of them call the Amazon rain forest home. The Amazon River is also a very important source, it is considered to be the life force of the