The Amazon Rainforest holds the highest concentration of plant and animal life on the planet. It sprawls across South America reaching nine different countries. In Amazon Rainforest, you have the opportunity to explore a part of this massive oasis of wildlife. Also to interact with the indigenous tribes that live there. Amazonia has been described as remote, mysterious, diverse, and unbelievably beautiful. That´s why those travelers who really want to uncover the secrets of the natural world should
Conflict over deforestation in the Amazon Ecosystems Assessment The Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, covering a total area of 2.1 million square miles. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests and is the most species-rich biome and ecosystem in the world today. More than 15% of the world’s animal and plant species live in the Amazon rainforest, including 30% of all birds. Such an amazing forest, also known as the ‘Pharmacy of the World’
The future of the amazon rainforest has been at the forefront of many national and international debates. Today we are faced with two decisions: Make money quickly by allowing the rainforest to be cut down without any limits or to make money slowly by logging responsibly allowing the rainforest to be preserved for the use of future generations. The pros of the making money quickly would be quick and huge profits. It would lower the unemployment rate for a short period of time by creating logging
As Montaigne wrote in his essay on cannibals “Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.” The natives living in the Amazon rainforest of South America did not build permanent structures but moved nomadically, hunting and gathering whatever they may find. Their beliefs in a great god, capable of no evil and other magical
type, so I also wind up stopping to remember a sentence or two that I loved, but have already forgotten. This has already happened to me twice since I started writing this. I think the worst time was in 7th grade when i was writing an essay about the Amazon rainforest. I remember very distinctly, I was sitting at my desk typing, and I came up with a wondrous sentence describing the mating habits of the capybara, and I just forgot it. Eventually I settled for a second-rate sentence