The Amazon rainforest is responsible for having the highest biodiversity in the world spread
across about seven million square kilometers, and is present in Brazil, Peru, Colombia,
Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.
Actually the Amazon rainforest is being much deforested, but this is not a recent problem, and
dates from the colonization of Brazil. It is estimated that 10% of the entire flora of the planet
is present in the Amazon with over 5000 species of trees, so its devastation has many impacts
on the planet, such as the reduction of biodiversity, soil erosion, degradation of watershed
areas, release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, reducing the moisture in the air, and social
environmental and economic imbalance.
The total area of the Legal Amazon (as it is called the area that belongs to Brazil) according to
the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) is the equivalent of 5,217,423 km ² today, but
only since 1988 have been devastated 392,021 km ², and if there is a drastic decrease in the
rate of deforestation in the very near future there may be no more rainforest.
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