Characteristics that make the Amazon rainforest Special

#1 The Amazon rainforest is home to an abundance of animals and plants and may contain half of the world's species! Your sure to run into some type of animal or plant if you go strolling down the Amazon rainforest.





#2 The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world taking up most of the Amazon basin. Make sure you keep with your tour guide so you do not get lost.





#3 With all those trees and plants it is no surprise that more than 20% of Earth's oxygen is produced in the Amazon rainforest giving it the name "the lungs of the Earth".





#4 About 2,700 million acres of the Amazon rainforest are burned each year. That is a lot of land to waste. What happens to the animals and people that live there?





#5 Amazon Rainforest plants can be used in tons of medicines. 1 out of 4 ingredients in our medicine is from rainforest plants.