Amazon Rainforest Research Paper

The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical forest in the world. It covers eight countries and about two million miles of land. It produces about twenty percent of the world's oxygen. The Amazon Rainforest is losing a lot of trees due to deforestation. About ninety eight percent of Native Amazonian tribes have territories in the amazon. Native Amazonians have been in the rainforest for about twelve thousand years, that is about four-hundred-eighty generations that have lived there. They fish, hunt and grow crops for food. Native Amazonians use bows and arrows and also spears to hunt. Different tribes live in different parts of the rainforest. Native Amazonians have caused the least amount of harm to the rainforest out of every group in the rainforest. They don’t use the rainforest to make a living they used the live to survive and even though they take from the rainforest they also give back by planting crops and other things. …show more content…
They hunt, fish and also grow crops. Some of the fruits and vegetables Native Amazonians eat are, acai berries, the maracuja, which is also known as passion fruit, chayote a vegetable that was cultivated by the Aztecs and Mayans, and aguaje, a yellow fruit that tastes like a carrot there are many others as well. Native Amazonians also eat meat and nuts. The most common nuts that the Native Amazonians eat are cashews and Brazil nuts. For meat Native Amazonians eat fish, birds, wild boars, and even bugs and insects. Today some Native Amazonians make handicraft to sell to tourist. Some Native Amazonians make a living off of