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3 interesting facts about the Amazon rainforest

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3 interesting facts about the Amazon rainforest

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Nearly two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest is found in Brazil. The Amazon is thought to have 2.5 million species of insects. More than half the species in the Amazon rainforest are thought to live in the canopy. 70 percent of South America's GDP is produced in areas that receive rainfall or water from the Amazon.

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How does the amazon rainforest catch fire - Pics

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How does the amazon rainforest catch fire - Pics

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How does the amazon rainforest catch fire

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How does the amazon rainforest catch fire

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Forest fires do happen in the Amazon during the dry season between July and October. They can be caused by naturally occurring events, like lightning strikes, but this year most are thought to have been started by farmers and loggers clearing land for crops or grazing.

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How does the amazon rainforest get its name

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How does the amazon rainforest get its name

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The Amazon rainforest is named after the Amazon River, which is known as the Rio Amazonas in Spanish and Portuguese. "Amazonas" is derived from an ancient Greek myth about a tribe of mighty women warriors.

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How much of the Amazon has been destroyed?

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How much of the Amazon has been destroyed?

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Over the past 30 years, 15 percent of the Brazilian Amazon has been destroyed.

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The researchers say that the forest in the south-east of the Amazon have been very badly hit by deforestation and climate change. In this area, temperatures have increased in the two hottest months of the year by 3.07C - this is around the same increase seen in the Arctic and around three times the global average.

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7 steps you can take to help save the Amazon and the world's rainforests, from the Rainforest Action Network.

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7 steps you can take to help save the Amazon and the world's rainforests, from the Rainforest Action Network.

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1) Reduce your paper and wood consumption.

2) Reduce your oil consumption.

3) Reduce your beef consumption.

4) Hold businesses accountable.

5) Invest in rainforest communities.

6) Support the grassroots.

7) Support Rainforest Action Network and Amazon Watch

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The human impact on the Amazon rainforest has been grossly underestimated according to an international team of researchers from Brazil and the UK, led by Lancaster University.

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Effect on the biodiversity of the amazon rainforest

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Effect on the biodiversity of the amazon rainforest

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Biodiversity loss from habitat destruction is often driven by land grabbing and industrialized agricultural expansion, mining, logging, and large-scale infrastructure development, usually through deforestation. Even worse, deforestation in Indigenous lands and protected areas has skyrocketed in recent years.

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Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has surged to its highest level since 2008, the country's space agency (Inpe) reports. A total of 11,088 sq km (4,281 sq miles) of rainforest were destroyed from August 2019 to July 2020. This is a 9.5% increase from the previous year.

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The ever-growing human consumption and population is the biggest cause of forest destruction due to the vast amounts of resources, products, services we take from it. . Direct human causes of deforestation include logging, agriculture, cattle ranching, mining, oil extraction and dam-building.

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3 Major causes of amazon rainforest reducing

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3 Major causes of amazon rainforest reducing

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1)The immediate causes of rainforest destruction are clear.

2)The main causes of total clearance are agriculture and in drier areas, fuelwood collection.

3)The main cause of forest degradation is logging. Mining, industrial development and large dams also have a serious impact.