Being the largest tropical rainforest in the world, The Amazon Rainforest covers an astounding 1.4 billion acres. This rainforest is so huge that almost half of it falls in Brazil but the remaining is spread out over countries like Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and Suriname. Almost 20% of the world’s bird species are found in the Amazon. You can imagine how huge it is! Believe it or not, this wonderful rainforest could entirely disappear off of the face of the earth in the next 50 years. Deforestation, global warming, mining have all contributed in eroding it away.
Millions of years old and home to over a third of planet Earth’s plant and animal species – plus some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes – the vast forest nicknamed the “Earth’s Lungs” is under serious threat from deforestation. Over the past four decades around 40 percent of the Amazon has been destroyed, primarily for mining, industrial agriculture and illegal logging.
