The Amazon
is a vast biome that includes eight fast-growing countries - Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname - and French Guiana, an overseas territory of France.
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The landscape
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includes about one of ten known species on earth.
1.6 billion hectares of dense forest, about half of the remaining rainforest on the planet.
20% of the world's liquid fresh water.
2.7 million square kilometers in the Amazon Basin, about 40% South America
There is a clear link between the health of the Amazon and the health of the planet. Tropical forests, which contain 150 to 200 billion tons of carbon, help stabilize the local and global climate.Deforestation releases significant amounts of this carbon, with negative consequences around the world.
