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-The Amazon Rainforest is located in 9 different countries but the majority of it (around 60%) is located in Brazil.
-The rest of it can be found in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana (which is technically an overseas territory).

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-Huge areas of rainforest are destroyed by clearing for farming, timber, roads, hydropower dams, mining, house-building or other development.
-The problem is it's often seen as more economically worthwhile to cut the forest down than to keep it standing.

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-The Amazon is one of Earth's last refuges for jaguars, harpy eagles, and pink river dolphins, and it is home to sloths, black spider monkeys, and poison dart frogs.
-It contains one in 10 known species on Earth, 40,000 plant species, 3,000 freshwater fish species, and more than 370 types of reptiles.

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-The destruction of forests destroys the homes, habitat and food sources for the species that live there.
-It is estimated that 100,000 species become extinct in tropical forests yearly.
-The loss of one species in an ecosystem can affect others who rely on it. The more biodiversity in a system the healthier and more resilient the system.

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-The world wildlife fund has been working in the Amazon for 40 years and is at the forefront of efforts to protect the people, forests, and species that call it home.

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https://www.worldwildlife.org/places/amazon#:~:text=WWF%20has%20been%20working%20in,species%20that%20call%20it%20home.

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Each year, the Amazon loses thousands of square miles of forested area. Agricultural expansion, ranching, infrastructure projects, energy exploration, and illegal logging are to blame. We address the following:

Soy farming: WWF works with the Soy Roundtable-made up of soy producers, processors, and exporters-to improve the sustainability of the participants' practices and minimize the impact on the Amazon and its wildlife. WWF is also a part of the collaborative group of NGOs behind the Soy Moratorium, a voluntary agreement between transnational trading companies, soy producers, and civil society to ban the conversion of Amazon forests to soy after 2006, which has drastically reduced deforestation in the region. This was a critical first step toward taking deforestation and conversion out of soy supply chains, though more work is needed to avoid leakage of this issue to nearby ecosystems like the Cerrado savanna and Chaco woodlands.

Cattle ranching: WWF works with the beef industry to create standards that increase efficiency and reduce waste. This includes educating ranchers about why it is not necessary to convert more forests into pasture to increase profits. WWF works through the Global and US Beef Roundtables to develop principles and criteria that increase the productivity of existing cattle ranches and prevent the establishment of new ranches in high conservation value forests.

Hydropower: Improperly sited dams can have significant impacts on fisheries, wildlife, and people who depend upon them. WWF supports low-carbon, low-cost, and low-conflict energy sources, particularly through energy scenario planning that considers alternative development options and siting of needed energy infrastructure in locations that minimize impacts on people and nature.

Illegal and unsustainable logging: High demand for timber products, weak laws, and poorly implemented trade rules lead to logging that destroys nature. WWF works to create market conditions that conserve the world's forests but also provide economic and social benefits for businesses and people.

Infrastructure: In Colombia, WWF partnered with the government to create participatory, ecologically sustainable road development processes. In February 2021, President Duque of Colombia announced the Green Road Infrastructure (GRI) Guidelines, a set of national government guidelines for building sustainable and resilient road transport infrastructure. The Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, WWF-Colombia, and the Colombian NGO Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development collaborated to design the guidelines. The guidelines are a major achievement for the people of Colombia and the Amazon, taking into consideration the needs of local people as well as the health of this critical region.

Regional and global demand for natural resources, including timber and fish, can be met without devastating the environment. We work with agriculture and timber sectors to eliminate waste and increase production efficiency.

We also seek to promote demand for sustainable forest products. WWF engages local Indigenous communities and governments to manage protected areas and supports local communities' ability to earn a living sustainably. For example, as part of the US Agency for International Development-funded Amazon Indigenous Rights and Resources (AIRR) project, WWF is focused on encouraging the development and scaling of Indigenous enterprises based on the sustainable use of forest products, fisheries management, and aquaculture. And in a protected area in Bolivia, WWF supports training and organic certification for sustainable Brazil nut harvesting.

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Each year, the Amazon loses thousands of square miles of forested area. Agricultural expansion, ranching, infrastructure projects, energy exploration, and illegal logging are to blame. We address the following: Soy farming: WWF works with the Soy Roundtable-made up of soy producers, processors, and exporters-to improve the sustainability of the participants' practices and minimize the impact on the Amazon and its wildlife.

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https://www.amazonconservation.org/the-challenge/threats/

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Deforestation in the Amazon | Amazon Conservation Association

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The Amazon faces many threats such as deforestation, illegal logging, climate change, fires, Lack of Sufficient Governance, Lack of Law Enforcement