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In 1989, Lynne Cherry learned about the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and thought that maybe young people could help to save it. She was attending graduate school at Yale University at the time and she wrote The Great Kapok Tree while on a train ride between New Haven and Washington, DC.
An adventurous young girl who was born in the Amazon Rainforest. She was raised by Chuni and is a naive, adventurous, joyful huntress in training. Huarinka Bernardo De Paula Chief and veteran warrior of the Candámo Tribe and Zumi's father. Zumi Naomi Serrano Chief Huarinka's daughter who is Ainbo's best friend.
The following 16 pages use this file: 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires; Amazon biome; Amazon natural region; Amazon rainforest; Amazon rubber cycle; Amazônia Legal; Birds of the Amazon; Deforestation by continent; Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest; Flying river; Forest island; Guiana Amazonian Park; Health in Brazil; List of plants of the ...
Most of the interior of the Amazon basin is covered by rainforest. [6] The dense tropical Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. [2] It covers between 5,500,000 and 6,200,000 square kilometres (2,100,000 and 2,400,000 sq mi) of the 6,700,000 to 6,900,000 square kilometres (2,600,000 to 2,700,000 sq mi) Amazon biome.
The Amazon rainforest is a species-rich biome in which thousands of species live, including animals found nowhere else in the world. To date, there is at least 40,000 different kinds of plants, 427 kinds of mammals, 1,300 kinds of birds, 378 kinds of reptiles, more than 400 kinds of amphibians, and around 3,000 freshwater fish are living in Amazon.
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 ]
The teenage girls during seclusion must learn how to weave mats, and perform many basic everyday household duties. After a few years they become ready for marriage, they are given a new name and their ears are pierced. The girls also learn how to dance and look after the family.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Brazil and Peru, where it inhabits the Amazon rainforest. It is omnivorous, nocturnal, and primarily nonarboreal. [1]