More than half of the forest is contained within Brazil, the rest of it in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, covering five and a half million square kilometers, or 1.4 billion acres.
The Amazon represents over half of the planet’s remaining rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world. The diversity of plant species is the highest on Earth. One in ten known species in the world lives in the Amazon Rainforest.
If we want to save our planet, we have to preserve the rainforest…
Rainforest Dawn
author: andy mumford
Amazon Flower
author: jitsen.chang
Palm Tanager in the Amazon
author: ironpaw
Man On The Amazon
author: Joseph A Ferris
Black-crowned Night-Heron
author: bayucca
Light and Darkness
author: Alessandro Bovero
Amazonia
author: caidogirl
source: http://www.pxleyes.com/blog/2011/06/the-extremy-beauty-of-the-amazon-rainforest-in-50-stunning-photos/
