Amazon Essay

The Amazon Rainforest, the largest rainforest in the world. Covering over a billion acres in the countries of Brazil, Venezuela, and Columbia; the Amazon is home to 40,000 plant species, 1,300 bird species, 3,000 types of fish, 430 mammals and 2.5 million different insects. That’s a lot of life, not even including the 700,000 indigenous tribal people that are living in the Amazon today. This untamed jungle is disappearing fast, 14% of the world was covered by rainforests thousands of years ago…

The Amazon rainforest is the biggest in the world. It covers an astonishing 2.124 million square miles, originally it was a whole 4,100,000 kilometers. It is significantly smaller now because of the logging companies and farmers who took over much of the land. The tribes that have lived in the rainforest for generations past and the ones who will live there in the future, are severely affected by the deforestation and are slowly being squeezed out of their livelihoods. The loggers and farmers…

to develop. In the long run these can be utilized as a part of medicinal research. Forest degradation has enormously reduced the accessibility of therapeutic plant species in the Brazilian Amazon. As of today, 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest materials, yet just 1% of plants of the Amazon have so far been tried. Currently, over 120 drugs come from plant-derived sources. Of the 3000 plants identified by the US National Cancer Institute as active against cancer cells, 70%…

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in the world are Brazil and Indonesia. They are both countries that have vast amounts of rainforest and due to the increased demand around the world of timber, arable land, and soybeans, the amount of rainforest decreases on an annual basis. The Amazon rainforest is the largest on the planet and even though it spreads out to various countries around South America, the country that seems to be suffering the most from deforestation throughout this area is Brazil. They have been losing vast…

Deep in the Amazon rainforest lives the most isolated man in the world. He will spend tonight inside a leafy hole that he has dug himself in the ground, the same way he has for the past, approximately, 20 years. The last of his tribe, living isolated for so long makes it hard enough to survive let alone the fact that he lives in one of the most aggressive environments in the world. Home to 10% of the animal species in the world, as well as dangerous creatures like orifice attacking leeches,…

rainforest their home. The loss of these species homes, which toke sixty to hundred million years to evolve isn’t the only reason deforestation is a problem and a lot of them affect you too. Twenty percent of the world’s oxygen is produced in the amazon rain forest alone along with twenty-five percent of our medicines come from the rainforest. Which we have only discovered 1% of the plants there, image what diseases the other unexplored plants could possibly cure. Another thing I was unaware of…

Biodiversity loss and environmental destruction spreads infectious disease by increasing species resiliency and interactions with humans (Harvard, 2016). Deforestation is also destroying the Amazon Rainforest and ruining the home of the world’s most endangered tribe, the Awá, along with many other native tribes (Chamberlain, 2012). Deforestation simulations have shown an increase in temperature and a decrease in rainfall, which cause desertification…

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The Amazon Rainforest is located in 9 different countries, but more than half of it (around 60%) is located in Brazil. The rest of the 40% can be found in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. Image: Map of the Amazon Rainforest. Unique characteristics: The Amazon is the world's biggest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests, in the Congo Basin and Indonesia, combined. The Amazon River is by far, the world's largest river by…