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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.
PHOTO: President Joe Biden, left, walks with Henrique Pereira, director of the National Institute for Research in the Amazon, during a tour of the Museu da Amazonia in Manaus, Brazil, Nov. 17 ...
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Bothrops bilineatus, also known as the two-striped forest-pitviper, [3] [4] parrotsnake, [5] Amazonian palm viper, [6] or green jararaca, [3] [7] is a highly venomous pit viper species found in the Amazon region of South America.
With his visit Sunday, Biden became the first sitting American president to set foot in the Amazon rainforest. After an aerial tour to view the ecosystems and deforestation, Biden said he was…
The Adolfo Ducke Botanical Garden was founded on October 24, 2000. Occupying 5% of the Adolfo Ducke Forest Reserve, it has 5 square kilometres (1.9 sq mi) distributed in a strip 500 metres (1,600 ft) wide and 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) long along the southern edge and 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) along the western edge of the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve. [1]
The Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA; Portuguese: Programa Áreas Protegidas da Amazônia) is a joint initiative sponsored by government and non-government agencies to expand protection of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.
Butler visited the Amazon rainforest and its Indigenous Xingu communities two years ago. Witnessing the areas of the forest that had been burnt down, which he describes as a “red desert that ...