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Tropical rainforests have been called the "jewels of the Earth" and the "world's largest pharmacy", because over one quarter of natural medicines have been discovered there. [2] Rainforests as well as endemic rainforest species are rapidly disappearing due to deforestation, the resulting habitat loss and pollution of the atmosphere. [3]
Rainforests are home to half of all the living animal and plant species on the planet. [7] Two-thirds of all flowering plants can be found in rainforests. [5] A single hectare of rainforest may contain 42,000 different species of insect, up to 807 trees of 313 species and 1,500 species of higher plants. [5]
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [2] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest. [3]
While the animals in the Amazon are often larger than life, this South American rainforest region have some of the world’s smallest creatures.
Let's go to the animal kingdom and explore some fun facts about them. The ever-cute otters are a good place to start. ... However, just 6,000 years ago, this dry land was a lush rainforest with ...
Birds of the Amazon rainforest (9 C, 523 P) F. Fish of the Amazon basin (368 P) Pages in category "Fauna of the Amazon"
Attacking crocs. Of the five main classes of vertebrate animals, reptiles often inspire the most fear. ... The diving anole lives in Costa Rica’s rainforest, where it’s able to form small air ...
In the animal kingdom, there is general consensus that Brazil has the highest number of both terrestrial vertebrates and invertebrates of any country in the world. [8] This high diversity of fauna can be explained in part by the sheer size of Brazil and the great variation in ecosystems such as Amazon Rainforest, Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, Pantanal, Pampas and the Caatinga.