Amazon forests
The Amazon Basin includes the largest tropical rainforest in the world. It includes parts of nine countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana (part of France), and these forests consist of huge numbers of trees, rivers, and wild animals that are not found anywhere else. Another world, and different ecosystems that vary between natural savannas and swamps.
The number of local people and tribes living in the Amazon in the year one thousand five hundred was six to nine million people, but currently they number two hundred and fifty thousand, divided between several tribes, and they speak more than one hundred and seventy different languages specific to the indigenous tribes of the Amazon, and it is believed that there are still fifty tribes. An Amazonian who never communicated with the outside world!
The increase in population, the introduction of agricultural machinery, and the economic exploitation of the Amazon’s bounties led to the removal of a portion estimated at one million hectares and four hundred thousand of forests in the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy, but environmental protection institutions stopped these activities and held all violators of their laws accountable with strict procedures and deterrent penalties.
Information about the Amazon forest
- The history of the Amazon forest dates back more than fifty-five million years, and there are animals in it that are not found anywhere else in the world. It is a rainforest, moist with broad leaves.
- Two-thirds of the Amazon forests are located in Brazil.
- The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world; It constitutes more than half of the world's rainforests, followed by the rainforests in the Congo Basin and Indonesia in the same rank.
- The area of the Amazon forest is six million nine hundred thousand square kilometers, making it forty-eight times larger than the area of the United States of America, and it covers about forty percent of the South American continent.
- There is the largest river in the world, called the Amazon River.
- There are about sixteen thousand different species of trees, all of which amount to three hundred and ninety billion trees, more than forty thousand species of plants, and nearly three thousand species of edible fruits.
- There are more than two million five hundred million species of insects.
- Seventy percent of the plants known to have anti-cancer properties are found in the Amazon forest, but ninety percent of them have not been scientifically analyzed in laboratories.
- There are the most dangerous types of snakes and spiders, it is also home to giant anacondas, and there are blood-sucking bats, as well as poisonous frogs.
- The toucan is considered to have the loudest voice among all forest animals. His voice can be heard from half a mile away.
- Rainwater that falls in the Amazon takes ten minutes to reach the ground because of its wide tree leaves, which also block the sun's rays.
