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The Amazon rainforest stretches 3 million square miles across nine different countries including Paraguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Perú, and Colombia. The main countries that house the Amazon are Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia. However, majority of the Amazon is actually in Brazil. This place is teeming with life; vegetation, animals, and indigenous ethnic groups across hundreds of thousands of miles. There are about 80,000 species of plants, 3 million…

Biomes Survival Story We were flying in the government's new 737 million dollar B-2 Spirit jet. My sergeant gave me and my co-pilot orders to go to the coordinates 6.1° S 106.9° E, which is Jakarta, Indonesia. Our orders were to observe the areas that have military-like forces in the tropical rainforest. As we were making our last pass for reconnaissance over the tropical rainforest, there was a huge thunderstorm. A few minutes after the storm started the B-2 jet was struck by lightning,…

Tropical forests are found near the equator in Central America, parts Africa and Asia. They are very hot and humid and contain a huge variety of plants and animals round half of the entire world's species. Trees are mostly hardwood. “The world's largest tropical rainforests are in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia” (Line3 TR), this explain as to why the temperature in these places tend to be humid. Tropical forest is a great place for many different species of plant to grow because of…

Picture this, The Amazon Rainforest. Bright green leaves from trees, animal moving all around, and beautiful trees, flowers and plant. Amazing, right? Well now imagine all of that being cut down, even destroyed. Many companies are cutting down trees in the Amazon to make factories, roads, farms, and to plant trees. By doing this, plants and animals are getting killed, which is causing a chain reaction. The animal and plant population goes down, then there is less food to hunt, then people are…

to the cutting, clearing, and removal of rainforest or related ecosystems into less bio-diverse ecosystems such as pasture, cropland, or plantations.” (Algee). According to National Geographic, during the past 40 years, close to 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down. (National Geographic) Wildfires also have a negative impact on the rainforests. “From the mid-1980s through 2015 the average number of acres burned has grown from about 2 million acres a year to around 8 million.”…

Text BoxShapeImageText BoxAcre is a state located in the north of Brazil a country in South America.it is considerably smaller than most other states in Brazil.Acre, sitting under the Amazons and to the right edge of Peru, is part of the Amazon rainforest biome.Therefore, like other surrounding states, it is almost entirely covered by plantlife.Being a rainforest, it is hugely biodiverse with thousands of breeds of trees, plants and animals. Consider these facts: A single pond in Brazil can…

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One major public policy in this case is the deforestation of forest lands that are the home to endangered species like the red-cockaded woodpecker. On one side of the argument is the logging industry that makes a living off taking from the land. As a society we need an infinite stream of lumber. This also brings about two major issues on the side against logging. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 has given the government "...the power to protect U.S. species from extinction" (Metrick & Weitzman…

The Amazon Rainforest Introduction There is so much to explore in the Amazon: birds, trees, and animals. Did you know that about 1/4 of natural medicines have been discovered in rainforests? And did you know that 25% of the oxygen supply that we have throughout the world is supplied by the tropical rainforests, even though they are miles and miles away? Read on to find out more! Where is it? The Amazon rainforest, or Amazonia, is a gigantic rainforest located in South America in an…

The Taiga is one mysterious place that stretches across North America, Europe, & Asia. The Taiga biome is the largest terrestrial biome, this biome is directly below the tundra biome. The taiga biome is also known as coniferous forest or boreal forest. This biome typically has short, wet summers and long, cold winters. It gets plenty of snow during the winter and plenty of rainfall during the summer. The taiga is home to many animals like the Elk, Moose, Lnyk, Red deer, but the most interesting…