Interesting facts about Amazon Forest
– The Amazon is twice the size of India and sprawls across eight countries and one territory, storing vast amounts of carbon dioxide that would otherwise warm the planet.
– It has about 20% of the world’s freshwater and astounding biodiversity, including 16,000 known tree species.
– Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon, home to the largest swath of this rainforest, dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in nine years.
– For a second year, the Amazon River fell to desperate lows, leading some countries to declare a state of emergency. In Brazil, one of the Amazon River’s main tributaries dropped to its lowest level ever recorded.
– It was the worst year for Amazon fires since 2005, according to nonprofit Rainforest Foundation U.S. Between January and October, 15.1 million hectares of Brazil’s Amazon burned. Bolivia had a record number of fires in the first 10 months of the year.
