DID YOU KNOW?
- The Amazon rain forest is the largest rain forest in the world. It stretches over 1.4 billion acres of land.
- More than 20 % of the Amazon rain forest is disappearing because of people cutting down trees for furniture and paper.
- Approximately 2700 million acres of land are burned each year.
- 50, 000 types of plants have been found by scientists.
- Many herbal medication is made from the plants
- 70% of plants found to have anticancer properties are found only in the rain forest's.
- The Amazon rain forest provides about 15 % of the world oxygen, because there is so much trees.
- If it was a country it would be the 9th largest in the world.
- The toucan is the most popular bird that lives there.
- There may be 50 types of tribes living there right now.