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Bookmark or Share- Amazon Conservation | 20 Years of Protecting the Amazon RainforestAmazon Conservation unites science, innovation, and people to protect the greatest forest on Earth, by empowering local people, protecting wild places, and putting science and technology to work.
- Amazon | Places | WWF - World Wildlife FundThe Amazon contains millions of species, most of them still undescribed, and some of the world's most unusual wildlife. It is one of Earth's last refuges for jaguars, harpy eagles, and pink river dolphins, and home to thousands of birds and butterflies.
- Amazon rainforest - WikipediaThe Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]
- Amazon River | Facts, History, Location, Length, Animals, & Map ...Amazon River, the greatest river of South America and the largest drainage system in the world in terms of the volume of its flow and the area of its basin. The total length of the river is at least 4,000 miles (6,400 km), which makes it slightly shorter than the Nile River.
- The Amazon Rainforest - WorldRainforests.comThe Amazon is the world's biggest rainforest, larger than the next two largest rainforests — in the Congo Basin and Indonesia — combined. As of 2020, the Amazon has 526 million hectares of primary forest, which accounts for nearly 84% of the region's 629 million hectares of total tree cover.
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